“Two Solitudes" at Paste Magazine
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New Album, More, Out Now on Silence Breaks
“[Keith Zarriello] writes stuff almost no one writes well anymore: dense, intelligent three- and four-minute rock songs that feel vital and necessary. He is, no bullshit, one of the best songwriters working today.” – The Awl
"Keith Zarriello's voice carries an eerie, mesmerizing eroticism." – Pitchfork
“…one of our favorite songs of all time.” – Gorilla Vs Bear
Today, The Shivers released their latest music video for the band’s song “Two Solitudes” directed by Joshua James Richards. Watch the video HERE, and be sure to check out Paste Magazine’s premiere of the video HERE. The band’s latest video uses the ethereal textures of "Two Solitudes", the ambient reprise to the single, "Love Is In The Air" to depict a gut-wrenching story of love and loss. Allowing the internal struggles of the protagonist in the video (The Shivers' own Keith Zarriello) to set the pace of this beautiful and deliberate piece, the video captures the true essence of loss and the personal journey to rise above it. The track was drawn from the band’s recently released album More, which came out on Silence Breaks Records in May. Click HERE to hear the band’s most recent single “Love is in The Air” and read The Awl’s profile of the band HERE.
For The Shivers, More was a liberating labor of love reflecting influences from rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm and blues, folk, and everything in between. Using every dime they'd saved, Zarriello and Schornikow traveled to Manchester in the Spring of 2010 to record their latest record in an entirely analog studio. Over five days, the two worked tirelessly, capturing the tracks they had worked on in the small church in Queens where the band practices. The end result was More, an album that runs the gamut of American rock ’n’ roll, delving into everything from gritty Lou-Reed-inspired rock to the swaggering soul of Nina Simone.
Hailing from Queens, NY, Keith Zarriello began writing music as The Shivers started back in 2001 and has spent the last ten years mining the depths of American music, developing a songwriting style that ranges from earnest, heartbroken ballads to ’60s garage rock revival. In 2004, Zarrellio put out Charades, which featured the much lauded track “Beauty,” which earned universal praise from the likes of Pitchfork andThe Guardian, and would end up being named Gorilla Vs Bear’s thirteenth best song of the decade. The album also caught the ear of an Australian, classically-trained church organist named Jo Schornikow, who joined the band as a full-time member that year. With Schornikow adding a delicate counterpoint with her piano and keyboard flutters,The Shivers spent the next six years touring aggressively in the U.S. and the U.K., and releasing a grand total of four albums, leading up to the ultimate release of More this year.
The Shivers
More (May 10, Silence Breaks)
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