GVTH DVDDY – GVTH DVDDY (2025) – Album Review

Release Date: May 16, 2025

Art & Design by Chris James
Mastered by Chris Colbert

When I heard the first two tracks, I thought it was going to be a tale of two albums. One half post-rock but stripped of the floaty shoegaze perfume. No dreamy shimmer, just tight coils of guitar and anxious restraint. Then veering, hard, into full-goth theater filled with echoes and that sweet-sweet melancholy. But somewhere between the tremolo spasms and the low-end rumble, it all came together.

This isn’t really my kind of music even though this music is just about everyone’s kind of music. They played at the Six Below Midnight recently (we just did a scene report there last month) and this band slipped past me just like dozens and dozens of other acts out there – the only downside of living in Portland is that we have an embarrassment of riches and there are only so many hours in the day. But Portland is also a bit spooky. You go in for a hair trim at a barber shop on Sandy BLVD and the person holding scissors to your skull tells you to check out a local group called GVTH DVDDY. So here we are.

The standout track on this album is “Blue” because it’s the glue that holds the whole twisted skeleton together. It’s everything you want from that slower goth rock – sad lyrics, reverbed vocals hanging just behind the beat, tucked neatly inside layers of bass and guitar. The whole thing carries that muffled kind of sadness that creeps in on overcast afternoons while driving on a Saturday – but I think what stands out the most for me is the cohesion of the record. It really feels like one long song; and I’m guessing that’s what they were going for at only 37 minutes long.

This is a solid album and it deserves more than one listen. Would definitely recommend to fans of the genres I listed.