Quivers - You're Not Always On My Mind
Turntable Kitchen, a boutique label in Seattle, recently pressed and released a limited run 7” with three songs from Australia’s jangle-pop band Quivers – “You’re Not Always On My Mind,” “When It Breaks,” and a cover of “Me In Honey,” from R.E.M.
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According to the band’s Bandcamp page, “Me In Honey” is an appetizer “for a full-length version of R.E.M.'s 1991 Out of Time album which the label has commissioned Quivers to make this summer.”
Quivers is made up of Sam Nicholson (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Bella Quinlan (vocals, bass), Holly Thomas (vocals, drums), and Michael Panton (vocals, guitars). The band’s sound exudes velvety melancholic flavors blended with sweet optimism and gleaming low-slung textures straight out of the ’80s, but with modern-Zumiez tangs.
A smooth, glistening tune, “You’re Not Always On My Mind” travels on a thrumming plump bassline topped by sparkling guitars exuding new wave tints of glinting colors. Tantalizing wisps of recollection give the harmonics an elusive familiarity, conjuring up memories of R.E.M, only more redolent and palpable.
The gentle guitars discharge polished metallic tones, as Nicholson’s cleaner tones inject the lyrics with an earnest tranquility missing from Stipes’ voice.
Assuming Nicholson is providing the vocals, he does a grand job, infusing the lyrics with nuanced timbres, light, gossamer, and radiant. His intonations deliver a spellbinding cashmere reflection of the arpeggiated luminous guitars.
“You're not always on my mind / Just mostly all the time / We would watch the rain on the white lines / Still so far away from where you are / But you're not always on my mind / Just mostly all the time.”
On the surface, “When It Breaks” is gorgeously simple, yet attains complexity because of the rippling layers of hues interweaving on delicate strands. Scrumptious harmonies imbue the tune with glowing resonance and diffusion.
“We’re no longer afraid of the night / With all the medicine we took we could glow in the dark / And when we dream we dream of danger / All the ways our bodies can fall apart.”
Quivers’ version of “Me In Honey” is creamier and more buttery, less biting, than the original. The gentle guitars discharge polished metallic tones, as Nicholson’s cleaner tones inject the lyrics with earnest tranquility missing from Stipes’ voice.
The best of the three tracks from Quivers is “You’re Not Always On My Mind,” a yummy concoction of dreamy jangle-pop aromas.
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