Australian band Quivers have signed to Merge and announced their first album for the label, Oyster Cuts, which will be out August 9. It’s their fourth album overall, and they made it with producer Matthew Redlich, who worked on their great 2021 album, Golden Doubt.
The first single is “Apparition,” which borrows a bit from both the Rolling Stones and Pavement. The video was made in just two days on a borrowed handicam. “In our excitement to join our dream label, Merge, we thought it best to make no big moves, just deliver a $0 filmclip and be ourselves, albeit in homemade ghost owl costumes. The song is about trying to move on even while taking your ghosts with you, a realization that even grief has humor in it. It’s also a commitment to friendship, and playing in a band, and the idea that songs will clear the smoke and hold us together sometimes.” Watch that below.
Quivers will be coming to the US for Merge’s 35th anniversary festival and are touring around it, including two Brooklyn shows at Union Pool on July 31 & August 1.
UPDATE: The tour got rerouted so no Brooklyn dates this summer, but they will be back this fall.
All dates are listed below.
Oyster Cuts:
1. Never Be Lonely
2. Pink Smoke
3. More Lost
4. Apparition
5. Grief Has Feathers
6. Oyster Cuts
7. Screensaver
8. If Only
9. Fake Flowers
10. Reckless
Quivers – 2024 Tour Dates:
Jun 14 Kyneton, AU – Major Tom’s
Jun 15 Beechworth, AU – Tanswells
Jun 21 Melbourne, AU – Northcote Social Club
Jul 26 Carrboro, NC – Merge 35
July 29 Seattle, WA – Substation
Jul 31 Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool
Aug 01 Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool
Aug 02 Washington, DC – Comet Ping Pong
Aug 03 Philadelphia, PA – TBA
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 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 1 Canberra, AU – Sideways
Nov 2 Sydney, AU – Waywards
Nov 3 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 07 Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje
Dec 10 Paris, FR – Supersonic
Dec 11 London, UK – The Lexington
Dec 12 Manchester, UK – Castle Hotel
* w/ Superchunk