{"id":8651,"date":"2024-08-17T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T18:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2024-08-17T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T18:02:55","slug":"nyc-alt-rockers-the-giraffes-fire-the-shot-first-call-to-arms-from-explosive-cigarette-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8651","title":{"rendered":"NYC alt-rockers THE GIRAFFES fire \u2018The Shot\u2019, first call to arms from explosive \u2018Cigarette\u2019 album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Undeniably captivating. There\u2019s a certain charm to their music with instrumentation and vocals that are absolutely assured and insanely fucking groovy. Offering a very cool melody, time-shifting and dramatism that builds in intensity, ‘The Shot’ is a superb and infectious single”<\/em> ~ Amplify Music Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooklyn-based alternative rock outfit The Giraffes<\/strong><\/a> present <\/strong>‘The Shot’<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> a hypnotic rock-meets-psychedelic-surf earworm that shimmers between shadowy depths and sunlit crescendos. This is the first taste of their eighth album ‘Cigarette’<\/strong><\/a>, slated for release on September 27, in which the band promises “a score for our current age of decay and disappointment, fear and fury, idiocy and hope”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known for their trademark menu of metal-tinged scuzz-rock, The Giraffes offer a tasteful mixture of heavy rock, punk, post-punk, surf and whatever else they find interesting. Formed in 1996, they’ve been crafting a hedonistic soundtrack that is loud, agile, dangerous, funny, sick, complex and satisfying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With lead singer Aaron Lazar<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>and guitar maestro Damien Paris<\/strong> as its core, drummer Andrew Totolos<\/strong><\/a> provides the locomotive rhythm section with Hannah Moorhead<\/strong> anchoring the bass. This year marks the beginning of a new era for the band, with Moorhead now also contributing backing vocals and songwriting. With the line-up no longer in flux, the focus is now largely on songwriting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result is ‘Cigarette’, an album full of surprises, taking new risks with subject matter and composition, while maintaining the intensity and dexterity fans know and love. Recorded & engineered by Andrew Totolos at Apesauce Studio<\/a><\/strong>, this album was mixed by Grammy nominated producer Francisco Botero<\/strong><\/a>(Matisyahu, Odesza) <\/strong>at the legendary Studio G Brooklyn<\/strong><\/a> and by James Dellatacoma<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>(Bill Laswell, <\/strong>Herbie Hancock, TS Monk, John Zorn, Angelique Kidjo) <\/strong>at Bill Laswell<\/strong><\/a>‘s famed Orange Music Sound Studio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“‘The Shot’ is a song about Gen x (my generation), which has always chronically undersold itself. We have limited desires and, as a result, we tend to see limited returns. We were raised by these selfish boomers and we really don’t want to become like that but, at the same time, the rules we must live by still happen to be boomer rules,” says Aaron Lazar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Consequently, we (or honestly I) fall into the trap of pulling back and looking at the larger picture. The bigger story of degradation and cope that leads us to envisioning a paradise on the other side of this disappointment of an existence. This is a song about millennialism I suppose, where we are doomed to fail, but forced to race nonetheless.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four years since cutting their teeth on the NYC underground scene and two years since releasing their 1998 debut album\u00a0‘Franksquilt’<\/strong><\/a>, The Giraffes finally found its true form as a band in 2000 when joined by vocalist\u00a0Aaron Lazar<\/strong>. Upon releasing\u00a0<\/strong>‘Helping You Help Yourself’<\/strong><\/a>, their first album with Lazar in 2002,\u00a0the band would stake its claim as the most unbridled and fun-loving Brooklyn live act. Indeed, with fierce musicality and peak audience participation, The Giraffes earned themselves a dedicated fan base.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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