da Googie + Cara Tivey
The Golden Thread
Tiny World Productions PICI-0067-LP
PICI-0067-CD
launch date: 7 March 2025
Rambling on concerning the brilliance of Deb Googe and Cara Tivey is not any tough activity – 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 – we have now heard the album and it’s an excellent assortment of sound and texture with some mesmerizing songs of darkish enegry.
Deb joined My Bloody Valentine throughout its ascent to legend, stuffed a short lived void in Primal Scream, aide 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’s could also be finest often known as a longtime Billy Bragg collaborator, however she’s performed with an array of different excellent artists, amongst them All the pieces 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 beneath their very own names till now with The Golden Thread, their full-length debut, made beneath the identify da Googie + Cara Tivey. The album was recorded in Deb’s residence studio and carried out completely by the duo.
The album can be preceded by the digital single, Dumb, an indictment of the unhappy situation behind practically all the trendy western world’s ills, which serves as a degree of an entry into the album’s seemingly contradictory sonic parts: thick-but-minimal soundscapes, dub’s openness put throughout in a densely claustrophobic type paying homage to My Bloody Valentine, a bass-driven sound melding effortlessly into moments of delicate piano, and lyrics that convey depths of which 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: Unhealthy 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