Gold Fever Does Everything But Disappear With New Single “DB Cooper”
AN UNDENIABLE, TRANSFIXING AURA THAT MUSICIANS — strive for with every stage performance and song release: style. Gold Fever, a new dance-rock trio out of Bristol, overflows with style. With their second single, “DB Cooper,” the band’s bold guitar riffs and catchy lyrics only lean further into this flair.
Made up of members Oscar JD Sault, Emily Andrews, and Callum Wright, Gold Fever was together for three years before releasing their debut single in late 2022. The group is excited to finally release the music they spent so long working on.
“It’s been a really beautiful thing to let songs breathe and have some space for us to sit with them,” frontman and songwriter Sault says. “But now it’s nice that this song gets its moment in the sun.”
The band, which initially formed while its members were at university, spent their first two years together refining their sound during the pandemic.
“Because it was during COVID, we did everything in secret,” Sault explains. “We figured out what it was that made us excited and what our sound was. That took a bit of time, but made it so [that when it was time to release the songs], we really felt ready to just to send it and say, ‘Let's do it.’”
With “DB Cooper,” Gold Fever makes it clear that they took this preparation time seriously. Sault’s hypnotic vocals over catchy drums and fast-paced electric guitar give the song an undeniably danceable quality that guarantees the listener is on their feet by the end of the track. All this while the lyrics ground the song in a heightened version of Sault's personal history.
“The track is very much semi-fictitious. There’s some elements based on periods of how I was feeling, but that was caricatured a lot through the lyrics,” he says. “I think the track centers around this feeling of indulgence to the point where indulgence can almost feel monotonous, and I wanted to compound that with the [instrumentation] — it's melodic, but there's something with the guitars that feels quite irregular.”
This irregularity draws the listener in, as the erratic guitars beg for a relisten. The band is sure to draw comparisons to other popular British dance-rock bands, but Sault is not looking to anyone to tell him how to write or play.
“I don't tend to listen to stuff that always directly influences the music,” he says. “I’m more influenced by artists that have an instantly recognizable sound. I want to get to a place where people [automatically] know it's Gold Fever when they hear the songs to come.”
The promotional photos for “DB Cooper” feature Sault with his hair slicked back, holding up a mugshot-style name plate with the title of the single across the front. The band leans into this fun, creative, quality, keeping a tone that's practiced yet not too serious — all of the things that have made their live shows such hits.
“We’re looking forward to doing more live stuff over the next year or so,” Sault adds. “It has been really fun working out how we're going to play such dense songs as a three-piece. We've kind of reworked some stuff so it doesn't sound exactly the same as it does on record, which is actually really nice.”
The band is looking forward to everything coming in the next year, as they continue to release their carefully cultivated sound out into the world.
“I'm very grateful to the other two band members,” Sault says. “They kind of believed in Gold Fever and had the patience to kind of see what happened, and now finally I think we are in a really good place.”
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