Shiver Shiver

Years Active: 2007 to present

Genre: Indie-pop

Country: United States

Members:

Chase Thornburg (drums and voice)
Jordan Elsberry (voice and keys)

Website:

http://myspace.com/shivershiver

Why is this artist indie?

“We live in a world where music is divided into simple categories that Shiver Shiver doesn’t fit into. We call our music “Hip Pop,” because it is pop music, but it’s not cheesy. Shiver Shiver’s sound comes from our background in jazz, yes, but also from our influences in literature and rock. Vladimir Nabokov and David Bowie have as much to do with our music as do Wayne Shorter and Beck. I know it may sound incongruous, but it all fits together like a puzzle.” Indeed it does all fit together. From the opening thunder of the groove-driven “Twilight Dreamer” to the Beatles-esque “Stop Lying,” Shiver Shiver’s music is smart, organic, funky and complex. As Marq Manner writes “It's hard to pigeonhole the two of them since they come from a jazz background and are now playing intelligent pop music with slices of funk, soul, glam, you name it thrown into the mix. The band's literary and cryptic style of lyricism is also hard to pin down at times. This makes their debut album, 'Soulless Sex Appeal,' an interesting listen time and time again.”