da Googie + Cara Tivey
The Golden Thread
Tiny World Productions
LP | CD
Launch Date: seventh March 2025
Rambling on in regards to the brilliance of Deb Googe and Cara Tivey is not any tough process – spot both of their names on a file’s sleeve credit and also you’re assured listening worthy of your time . . . and hard-earned money. We are able to again this up – now we have heard the album and it’s an excellent assortment of sound and texture with some enthralling songs of darkish power.
Deb joined My Bloody Valentine throughout its ascent to legend, crammed a brief void in Primal Scream, aided in Thurston Moore’s late-period creative excessive, shaped Snowpony with Stereolab’s Katharine Gifford, and performs bass in ex-Fall guitarist Brix Smith’s all-female band.
Cara could also be greatest often known as a longtime Billy Bragg collaborator, however she’s performed with an array of different excellent artists, amongst them All the things However The Lady, Blur, Lilac Time, Au Pairs and, the best of West Midlands geniuses, Robert Lloyd of Nightingales fame.
Extremely, regardless of a long time of stellar work, neither Deb nor Cara has ever launched an album below their very own names till now with The Golden Thread, their full-length debut, made below the title da Googie + Cara Tivey. The album was recorded in Deb’s house studio and carried out solely by the duo.
The album will probably be preceded by the digital single, Dumb, an indictment of the unhappy situation behind almost all the trendy western world’s ills, which serves as some extent of an entry into the album’s seemingly contradictory sonic components: thick-but-minimal soundscapes, dub’s openness put throughout in a densely claustrophobic model harking back to My Bloody Valentine, a bass-driven sound melding effortlessly into moments of delicate piano, and lyrics that convey depths of that means with a mere handful of phrases.
Dumb is accompanied by a video created by Deb from absurdities captured in animated (and public area) footage – a rodent military, ape-like males alongside man-like apes, brainless birds . . . in addition to their even sadder human equivalents, captured in movie.
Plans are afoot for the pair to tour within the UK and Europe all through a lot of 2025.
songs: Dangerous Habits / The Longest Wait / You Take It With You When You Go / Rant / Dumb / Mad Mike (Mark My Phrases) / The Final Tear Falls / Secret Place
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