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Queen City Sounds Podcast Ep. 2: The Shivas, Uncertainty and Urgency With Feels So Good // Feels So Bad

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Since forming in 2006, Portland, Oregon's The Shivas has developed a sound that incorporates elements of 60s psychedelic garage rock and pop but out of step with obvious trends. Its idiosyncratic songwriting style has always seemed to have more in common with the 90s indie pop and its emphasis on raw expressiveness and tapping into classic sounds and aesthetics as a vehicle for expressing timeless themes and universal human emotions with an intensity and artistry that feels vital and of the moment and not trying to recreate a previous era of music and culture. The band started making a name for itself in the American underground in the late 2000s but its breakthrough to a wider audience might be traced in the wake of the release of its 2013 album Whiteout! On the respected and influential label K Records. Heavy touring every year and a string of solid albums garnered the band a bit of a cult following when, in 2020, The Shivas, like many touring entities, had to effectively stop operations. The foursome had already written its next album and had to put plans on hold for any kind of release until the following year. During the first part of the pandemic and a de facto blackout of live shows happening, three fourths of the band worked with the unhouse population of Portland through a non-profit and took time to rethink and rework how the band would operate going into the future. In early 2021 the group released its latest album Feels So Good // Feels So Bad through Tender Loving Empire, a record that evokes the sense of urgency and uncertainty that all of us felt during the bleakest times of the 2020-2021 pandemic but which many of us poignantly felt prior to that global, and ongoing, health crisis. It is both a cathartic and comforting listen.

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released September 24, 2021

Interview conducted by phone by Tom Murphy with Jared Molyneux. Intro music is a portion of "Continuity Polaroids" by Haikyo Cartographer. Album photo by Tom Murphy of The Shivas at Dryer Plug Studio, March 24, 2015

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The podcast for Queen City Sounds and Art, a mostly music website based in the Queen City of the Plains, Denver. queencitysoundsandart.wordpress.com

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