Deb Googe joined My Bloody Valentine during its ascent to legend, filled a temporary void in Primal Scream, aide in Thurston Moore's late-period artistic high, formed Snowpony with Stereolab’s Katharine Gifford and plays bass in ex-Fall guitarist Brix Smith’s all-female band. Cara Tivey’s may be best known as a longtime Billy Bragg collaborator, but she’s played with an array of other outstanding artists, among them Everything But The Girl, Blur, Lilac Time, Au Pairs and the greatest of West Midlands geniuses, Robert Lloyd of Nightingales. Incredibly, despite decades of stellar work, neither Deb nor Cara has ever released an album under their own names until now with “The Golden Thread”, their full-length debut, made under the name da Googie + Cara Tivey.