Australian band Quivers will release their first album for Merge, Oyster Cuts, in August, and they’ve just shared its lovely title track. “This song was a wildcard,” say the band. “We wanted one really simple song to be trapped inside a warm feeling, like some abstracted memory. Bella and then Holly sing together from the perspective of someone surfacing from difficult things into falling for someone again. In a way, for such an underwater album, it’s about swimming away from grief. Swimming with someone else. It’s also that breathless feeling of finding someone and not being sure if you’ve dreamt them up. We project onto people all the time, but when you really get to know them and love them, they are more real than you could ever imagine. It ends in the controlled chaos of Mike’s feedback drones, something we are excited to further unshackle on the million shows we now have ahead.”
You can watch the video, shot at an aquarium, below.
Quivers will be in the US this summer for dates around Merge Records’ 35th anniversary festival, which originally included a couple nights in Brooklyn. Those ended up not happening (they’ll now be on the West Coast at that time), but they’ll be back this fall to open Superchunk‘s Foolish 30th Anniversary Tour. There’s no NYC stop currently, but Quivers will play a headline show at Knitting Factory at Baker Falls on October 5 with Razor Braids.
All dates are listed below.
Quivers – 2024 Tour Dates:
Jun 14 Kyneton, AU – Major Tom’s
Jun 15 Beechworth, AU – Tanswell’s
Jun 21 Melbourne, AU – Northcote Social Club
Jul 26 Carrboro, NC – Merge 35
Jul 29 Seattle, WA – Substation
Jul 31 Portland, OR – Swan Dive
Aug 02 Washington, DC – Comet Ping Pong
Aug 03 Philadelphia, PA – Ortlieb’s
Aug 04 Richmond, VA – Get Tight Lounge
Aug 30 Adelaide, AU – Queen’s Theatre
Sep 06 Ballarat, AU – The Eastern
Sep 07 Castlemaine, AU – The Bridge Hotel
Oct 05 NYC – Knitting Factory at Baker Falls
Oct 14 Columbus, OH – Skully’s Music Diner*
Oct 15 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall*
Oct 16 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue*
Oct 17 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room*
Oct 18 Sioux Falls, SD – Icon Lounge*
Oct 19 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater*
Oct 21 Austin, TX – Radio/East*
Oct 22 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall*
Oct 23 New Orleans, LA – Toulouse Theatre*
Nov 01 Canberra, AU – Sideways
Nov 02 Sydney, AU – Waywards
Nov 03 Port Kembla, AU – The Servo
Nov 15 Hobart, AU – Altar
Nov 16 Brisbane, AU – Black Bear Lodge
Dec 03 Dresden, DE – Ostpol
Dec 05 Hamburg, DE – Hebebühne
Dec 06 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
Dec 10 Paris, FR – Supersonic
Dec 11 London, UK – The Lexington
Dec 12 Manchester, UK – Castle Hotel
* w/ Superchunk