Quivers - Oyster CutsOyster Cuts, the Merge Records debut of Quivers, finds the Melbourne, Australiabased outfit awash in the kind of emotions people tend to fear losing themselves in. Finding love after grief, the outsized guitar pop of Quivers gleams like the surface of an ocean, beneath which lies a reef that is at turns beautiful and painful, its features alien and sharp enough to wound. Propelled by melodies that at times recall Galaxie 500 and The Pretenders,

the album makes up for it with scope and beauty

including ‰Û÷Badmotorfinger‰۪

Sonny Smith and Kelley Stoltz for the first three LPs - the band took it slow by working through a few songs each weekend after rehearsing them the week before

an exhaustive 45-track reissue of the band’s much-loved fifth and final album

“The message

And then just when you are ready to take out a

Tim's recent choice of Blue Orchids' The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) was no random one - the album's influence on The Charlatans is palpable

At the risk of further labouring a rather obvious point

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with early takes on their groundbreaking ‘Submarine Bells’ album

Redd Kross bassist Steve McDonald asked Crover to open for Redd Kross

It’s a mixture writ large throughout Nihilistic Glamour Shots