“The Golden Thread” – reviews
Alexis Petridis in The Guardian
“My Bloody Valentine bassist Deb Googe and serial collaborator Tivey unexpectedly dream up a fabulously creepy, disorientating and delightful soundworld.”
Pete Paphides on Patreon
“The first fruits of a new collaboration between Deb Googe and Cara Tivey don’t sound much like anything that either musician is known for – in other words, they don’t sound like My Bloody Valentine (Googe) or Billy Bragg, Blur, Everything But The Girl and The Lilac Time (Tivey). What’s happening instead is something more akin to the feeling of trying to avert a panic attack in a Victorian doll’s house. An atmosphere like that needs an earworm to keep you coming back, and Dumb certainly has one of those. It’s a phantasmagorical waltz-time lullaby that locates fertile equidistant space between something you might find on Pram’s North Pole Radio Station or the more febrile hinterlands of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Peepshow.”
Marc Riley, Gideon Coe and others have played it on various BBC radio outlets, and the combo will be playing shows this spring. Plenty of reviews forthcoming, too.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/da-googie-cara-tivey-the-golden-thread-album-review/
https://post-punk.com/da-googie-and-cara-tivey-weave-a-tapestry-of-haunting-noise-pop-with-the-golden-thread-lp/
