Taken from the album Golden Doubt.

Melbourne-via-Tasmanian four-piece Quivers first released their 2018 debut We’ll Go Riding on the Hearses as hand-made cassettes. The album dealt with singer Sam Nicholson’s loss of his brother in a free-diving accident, and “trying to not think about that, and often coming back to ghosts, benders, water, and pissing in the snow.” When demand for the album grew, it received a vinyl release and led Quivers to tour the US, film a KEXP session, and be selected by NPR Music for both the Austin 100 SXSW preview and as a ’Slingshot’ artist to watch. Their life-damaged but hopeful jangle pop has only sharpened since then, and while 2021 follow-up Golden Doubt conjures up REM or The Clean there is a lyrical directness that sets this record apart as always its own.

Golden Doubt is carried by shimmering guitars and the harmonizing vocals of members Holly Thomas and Bella Quinlan. Elevated by the production of Matthew Redlich (Holy Holy, Husky, Ainslie Wills), the record explores what comes after grief, and how we throw ourselves back into love. As Nicholson explains, the album tries to bottle “the rush of feelings and fears when you give in to falling for someone. It’s also an album in love with other albums, and the other bands around us.” Before each take at Woodstock and The Aviary studios in Melbourne, Australia, the band would imagine a scene together (a waterhole for “Laughing Waters”, an overgrown carpark for “Videostores”) and then dive in to capture live group takes.

Quivers need to get words on the page and sounds out to keep moving on. Both Sam and Holly lost their brothers in the same year, and through that shared vulnerability they all have together that runs deep. Golden Doubt is also a love letter to playing music as a band and processing it all together rather than just carrying it as a weight. The cancellation of a 21-date US tour they had slated for 2020 has left them undeterred; Quivers plans to continue being a band and get back out into the world as soon as it’s possible.

Of the title, Sam says: “Golden, because musically we daydream with the guitars of Teenage Fanclub and The Cure, the singing of The Roches’ sisters, the basslines of Another Sunny Day, and the drums of Lower Dens or Car Seat Headrest. Golden Doubt, because hitting your thirties
after losing people knocks you off balance for a while, but no longer caring what the world thinks is always a breakthrough feeling.” Quivers may have created the antidote to existential dread by embedding it in songs that feel so present and alive, we might not find firm ground, but there’s bliss in swinging from hook to hook as they sing “we stayed out ‘til there was glitter in our lungs.” Sooner or later you wake up and the doubt has long gone.

Quivers - Chinese Medicine

Sweet Pill - "Diamond Eyes"

Buoyancy

Hiding in Place

Swallowing The Water You Walk On

Dont be afraid to go die
Together we can fly

Put your hand into mine
And hold it down real tight

Please dont turn out the lights
I just get scared at night

Notice that i call you my wife
I say it all the time

And sometimes it gets so real
i know just how it feels

Together we can go steal
our love just so real

Dont be afraid to go die
Together we can fly

Put your hand into mine
And hold it down real tight

Please dont turn out the lights
I just get scared at night

Notice that i call you my wife
I say it all the time

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Heed The Call

leave her

released August 9, 2022
Producer, Songwriter: Glenn Claudio
Vocal: Glenn Claudio on reverb
Instruments: Glenn Claudio on electric guitars
Recorded: at Home
Lyrics:

hello, you take me down
today, i'll save the night
calm down, i'm on my own
today, i'll save the night

i like the view at night
fill my night with light
love is on its way to pick me up

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