Gvth Daddy

The Goth Rockers from Portland sit down with our very own Cary from Fuzz Kill Radio to discuss the release of their second album this month

How was it that you got around to putting that first self-titled EP together?

“I hit a wall at some point in 2024 and went through every single tune until I found one. I started sandbagging demos. My family and I moved and had a daughter and that kind of propelled the songwriting wheel. Having a kid kind of makes you have grief, in a weird way, because you’re mourning the state that never was, and you’re trapped in lots of cortisol and dopamine.”

You’ve joined the independent record label, Velvet Blue. How did that come about?

“I met Jeff who runs Velvet Blue when I was 22, and I’m 51 now, so the fact we’re still in the game, putting out records, and reconnected after all these years, really feels like a return home. I reached out to him when I was close enough to share demos for the first record, and he was like ‘let’s do it’. There was a quick turnaround on the first record because it was just CDs and stuff. I think people are enjoying it and we’re all having a ball.”

One of the new singles, Doom Kitty, is very different from anything that we heard on the first album

“That’s kind of the reaction everyone has. ‘It sounds like you, but it’s totally different’. And I think, ‘Cool, it did what it was supposed to do’. So many people pigeonhole something, ‘I really like that kind of music’. The Cure was only Goth in that they were emotional, but they had pop, and jazz. There’s a spectrum of what Goth is just as there’s a spectrum of what shoegaze is or what punk rock is and we try to thread between those so, say, Sonic Youth or My Bloody Valentine can jump into the chat. These are palettes. People wear the genres like uniforms now.”

The best records are the really raw ones, in my opinion, and you get that from Gvth Daddy’s music

“We started to play live more, and fell in love with a band called The Sound from the eighties. They were a punishing live band. We’re trying to thread that needle between something feeling live, which this record does, to feel that intimacy of people in a room. If I click a pedal and something goes wrong, it stays in, and it’s very human. It’s a little too easy now with presets and everything. I’m not gonna say that’s not cool. It’s a vibe, but if you hit the proteins without the carbs, after a while you forget it’s a song.”

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