Sam, Bella, Michael and Holly are Quivers, a band which make cathartic guitar pop that jangles and shimmers somewhere between 1980s Australia and 1990s America and somehow sound like the present. Started in Hobart before moving to Melbourne, the band first toured their life-damaged but hopeful debut, We'll Go Riding on the Hearses (Hotel Motel Records) around Australia, Canada and NZ. It lyrically deals with love and loss after losing a brother in a free-diving accident. KEXP’s John Richards described it as one of the best he’d heard “in years” and invited the band to perform a filmed live session in their studio. It also led Seattle label Turntable Kitchen to commission the band to record a song by song re-imagining of REM’s Out of Time album, which came out in October 2020.
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 out now and is a co-release between Ba Da Bing, Spunk and Bobo Integral Records.
"Quivers got to choose a 'classic' to cover for Turntable Kitchen's Sounds Delicious vinyl series and selected R.E.M.'s Out of Time (1991). We hope you like our re-imagining of the record and we hope Mike Mills doesn't sue us (I had a dream he would, twice)."
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