View basket “ACR:EPA” has been added to your basket. Feels So Good // Feels So Bad Shivas, The SKU: 0703669153581 Barcode: 0703669153581 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Tender Loving Empire Released Date: 18th February 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “The core of confusion and upheaval that drove some of the band’s most fiery earlier work, however, is replaced by a more stabilized undercurrent, a mentality that’s reflected in songs not afraid to try new things and honestly explore uncomfortable feelings. When combined with exciting production and songwriting choices, that mindset helps make Feels So Good // Feels So Bad one of the Shivas’ best albums.” – AllMusic “Portland, Oregon-hailing psych-surf band The Shivas accomplish another time-traveling, reverb-ridden sound that refuses to get boring. Jared Molyneux’s guitar work knows when to be bright or bashful at the right times, breaking into guitar solos that possess a late-’60s groove… The Shivas seem to blissfully flourish” – Paste “a consistent treat for the ears” – The Vinyl District “Though the psych-tinged guitar riff that drives ‘Feels So Bad’ was written while The Shivas were still on the road, its lyrics didn’t fall into place until the band was well into lockdown, unsure of when they’d be able to return to their most imperative true love: Live shows… Accordingly, ‘Feels So Bad’ permeates with a sense of urgent desperation, building off a chugging prog-rock instrumental.” – Consequence (on “Feels So Bad”) “They hooked the audience with their throwback rock sounds. The guitar strums and rhythmic drum beats were layered atop smooth and hallucinogenic vocals. The eyes can tell the take at times and there was a sparkle there that said that the band members just love doing live performances.” – California Rocker “This single layers on the fuzz but keeps it dreamy, with an especially sticky guitar riff sure to lodge itself in your brain with minimal effort.” – Portland Monthly (on “If I Could Choose”) “’My Baby Don’t’ translates the genuine vibrant joy of the live experience into the studio, bringing the band’s ‘60s garage rock roots, sharp pop vocal harmonies, and fervent performances along for the ride.” – Under The Radar “Perfectly straddling the line between a solid-head bopping track and an introspective deep cut, The Shivas’ ‘Undone’ is a rock & roll gem. The track sounds straight out of the late 60s and fits seamlessly in the Portland band’s electrifying catalog.” – The Luna Collective “The first time I clicked play on this track, I knew it was a yes for me.” – Ear To The Ground Music (on “If I Could Choose”) “The harmonies would make the “Happy Together” Turtles blush, but the unsettling guitar doesn’t shy away from the woollier implications of the ’60s.” – Willamette Week (on “If I Could Choose”) “‘Undone’ is just the perfect song for the good days and the bad ones.” – GlamGlare “another hit” – Austin Town Hall (on “Undone”) “one of the best forthcoming albums of the year” – Austin Town Hall RADIO: #3 Most Added @ NACC – 50 official adds BIO Every working musician has had their life turned upside down by Covid-19. For The Shivas, who had recently released a new LP and normally keep a rigorous touring schedule, it was a particularly screeching halt. “We were about to go to SXSW, the following weekend was Treefort in Boise, and then we were going to open for our friends’ band on tour in the US before going to Europe,” Jared Molyneux remembers. Then everything just stopped. They were faced with a dilemma. “It forced us to adapt or just quit,” Molyneux says. “The reality is that shows are our job.” In truth, live shows aren’t just The Shivas job: they are the band’s greatest love. Shivas shows are bombastic, explosive and thoroughly communal live rock and roll experiences where barriers between the performers and their audience seem to dissolve into the sweat and sound. The stage—or the basement, or the living room—that’s The Shivas’ true element. It’s their raison d’etre. It’s their religion. The band’s live urgency may have been born in 2006, when the band’s young members—who began booking West Coast tours while still in high school—waited without fanfare on sidewalks or in parking lots, before being rushed onstage for their sets at 21-and-up clubs. Maybe it developed a little later, as The Shivas blasted their way through Portland’s storied and unsanctioned mid-aughts house show scene. Whatever the origin of their famously kinetic live experience, it’s the show that keeps them coming back after over 1,000 performances spread over 25 countries in 15 years. In those 15 years, The Shivas have grown tight-knit as a group. Guitarist/singer Jared Molyneux, bassist Eric Shanafelt and drummer/singer Kristin Leonard have all been with the band since its earliest days; guitarist Jeff City, another high school friend, joined in 2017. Together they’ve learned to thread a seemingly impossible needle: They’ve honed and tightened their performances without sacrificing the element of surprise that makes each show special. And despite touring and recording for most of their lives, they speak about their project with humility, in the DIY vernacular of their Pacific Northwest upbringing. They talk up their own favorite bands, play all-ages shows as much as possible, and bring a sort of blue-collar humanism to the live performances they relish so much. “We just want to make people feel good,” Molyneux says. “We want them to forget they have to work tomorrow.” Kristin Leonard elaborates, “The live show is all about that feeling of catharsis—in ourselves and in everyone who comes out. We’re creating this safe space where we can all let go. Where we can exhale. And it feels really good when we are able to facilitate that.” So when Covid hit, the band knew it was time for transformation. After a settling realization that live music would be grounded for the foreseeable future, The Shivas booked significant studio time with Cameron Spies, who also produced the 2019 Dark Thoughts LP. They also transformed their lives: three of the band’s four members found work with a local nonprofit serving unhoused Portland residents. They became engaged in protests and fundraisers for social justice. They spent a whole summer actually living in Portland, settling into the city they had always called home, but that sometimes felt like a temporary stop between tours. “We got into a more community-minded headspace,” Leonard says. “And that did give us some purpose. It felt cool to see everybody come together to stick up for what they believe in. It feels like an incredibly formative last twelve months.” The album that emerged from this new moment finds The Shivas reborn as a band that seems seasoned and perfectly at home with itself. There is a calm, even a hopefulness, to Feels So Good // Feels So Bad that sounds new. The Shivas didn’t write or record the album with a particular theme in mind, but one seems to have emerged: where Dark Thoughts was about confronting your demons with fearless self-examination, much of Feels So Good // Feels So Bad is about what happens once you find that peace: how being honest with yourself changes your relationships and your priorities. “I do think it’s about acceptance,” Leonard says. “There’s a weird relaxation that comes with being at peace with things you can’t control or have regrets about.” Maybe that’s why the squealing, riff-laden break-up song opener, “Feels So Bad,” is such a shock to the system. But it’s more of an exorcism than a melodrama: more a song about not being able to do the thing you love (in this case, playing live shows) than splitting with a partner. “It’s like part of you goes to sleep,” Leonard says. As bandmates who are also in a long-term relationship, Molyneux and Leonard know that their songs might be seen as glimpses into their personal lives, but their songwriting is rarely autobiography. Leonard compares their process to something more akin to screenwriting. “There’s bound to be some autobiographical material in there,” she says. “But the common denominator is the exploration of universal feelings: ones that everyone experiences or can relate to.” The goal is to use the music to drill down into something genuine and sincere, beyond genre or stylistic affectation. That’s where The Shivas have arrived. Whatever growth led the band to Feels So Good // Feels So Bad, plenty of their fascinations remain. They’re still turning love songs into psychedelic, transcendent epics. “Tell Me That You Love Me” subverts doo-wop extravagance and dabbles in Flamenco rhythms. “Rock Me Baby” is a bubblegum anthem soaked in so much reverb that we might just be hearing it from the stadium nosebleeds. “Sometimes” is almost impossibly huge, like a witchy outtake from the Brill Building era. Those songs feel like logical expansions from a band that has always excelled at a timeless sort of rock and roll that tinkers with and explodes elements from every era. But on the towering and mournful “You Wanna Be My Man,” a slow-burning six-minute shoegaze prayer for a higher sort of love, there is a level of emotional nuance that feels like something altogether revolutionary. It’s there again in the stripped-down vulnerability of the album-closing elegy “Please Don’t Go.” Yes, Feels So Good // Feels So Bad is an album about acceptance. Sometimes that acceptance feels enlightened and sometimes it feels like the end result of a lot of kicking and screaming. The Shivas have adapted in both of those ways. With new tours scheduled and a new album on the way, they’re still hoping–like all of us–for a new era of vibrant, cathartic live music. The lessons they learned from having their normal upended, though, have only helped them grow. Artist Shivas, The Genre Rock And Pop Label Tender Loving Empire Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Feels So Bad Undone Tell Me That You Love Me If I Could Choose Don't Go My Baby Don't You Wanna Be My Man A Gift For The Kids Rock Me Baby So Cold Sometimes Please Don't Go Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Shivas, The and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Shivas, The Better Off Dead Rock And Pop | K Records | 1LP Released 19th February 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shivas, The Better Off Dead £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: K Records SKU: KLP258LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Girls In Synthesis Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future Rock And Pop | Harbinger Sound | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th August 2020 £16.00 Select options Girls In Synthesis Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Harbinger Sound Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th August 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Slow Show, The Dream Darling Rock And Pop | Haldren Pop Recordings | 1LP Released 30th September 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Slow Show, The Dream Darling £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Haldren Pop Recordings SKU: HPR112 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bad Brains Into The Future Rock And Pop | Megaforce | 1LP Released 19th November 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bad Brains Into The Future £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Megaforce SKU: 2028621224 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th November 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Nice, The Nice Progressive | Immediate | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 30th April 2024 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Nice, The Nice £14.00 Genre: Progressive Label: Immediate SKU: nn285875 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 30th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View David Axelrod Earth Rot Rock And Pop | Now Again | 1LP, Includes Booklet Released 14th June 2019 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders David Axelrod Earth Rot £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Now Again SKU: NA5186LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Booklet Released Date: 14th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marillion A Sunday Night Above The Rain Progressive | Ear Music | 3LP Released 4th August 2014 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marillion A Sunday Night Above The Rain £36.00 Genre: Progressive Label: Ear Music SKU: 0209657ERE Formats: 3LP Released Date: 4th August 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Boy Scouts Free Company Rock And Pop | Epitaph | 1LP Released 30th August 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Boy Scouts Free Company £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092771213 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Maria Taylor In The Next Life Rock And Pop | Grand Hotel Van Cleef | 1LP Released 9th December 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Maria Taylor In The Next Life £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Grand Hotel Van Cleef SKU: GHVC110LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th December 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Modern Baseball Sports Rock And Pop | Lame-O Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 25th September 2015 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Modern Baseball Sports £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Lame-O Records SKU: LMO001LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 25th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Image Limited Live At Rockpalast Rock And Pop | Made In Germany Music | 3LP Released 7th June 2012 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Image Limited Live At Rockpalast £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Made In Germany Music SKU: MIG90421 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 7th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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