THE GIRAFFES: franksquilt

The Giraffes

franksquilt

© 1998 ApeSauce Productions Inc. (634479514937)

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hula-hoop guitars mixed with monstrous power grooves, intense madness from sincere rock & roll wreckin' balls.

tracks

1 Homecookin'
2 Smoothie
3 The Irate Pirate
4 Cry Uncle
5 Fertility Dance
6 Surfin'the Jersey Shore
7 Castrol
8 Blind Matador
9 Last Stop
10 Black Book

notes

This is not catastrophic cacophony, all right?

Perhaps it is apocalyptic, but only because when the sound breaks into the moment it's gonna feel like getting kicked in the face.

This trio of rockpirates is looting villages and dragging out the women while sweet nectars pour and spill from their gold chalices, goblets, gimlets, sweaty jams and sensual sauce.

Listen to this dictation of Giraffeness and do it now! This shit is about being on point. Nobody takes this to Mommy and says "look what I did Mommy" because she's not gonna' say "that's nice honey". She's gonna' gasp at the madness and the intensity, the rock n' roll wrecking balls, and the sincerity will make her proud.

This shit is pride music. It celebrates a need to rock without saying a damn thing about love. Nobody in this trio looks like a rock star or even likes Def Leppard or Whitesnake.

Listen - we are in an era of collaborative efforts and epic collages. This music is hula-hoop guitar mixed with monstrous power grooves (ie Ventures, Minutemen, Blue Oyster Cult). This is so on point it peels away the static and rides a straight line. It is the straight line of passion.

These guys are letting it out for us, and they don't seem to imitate anything. Art lies, yeah we know art lies, and they're all saying it, but what does it lie about if there is no place or person it claims to be about. There is no culture in this music, because if there was it would be lying and wouldn't have such an awesome sting.

(review by Eric Fraser)

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  • Not bad for a start
    author: Johnny T

    This is not a bad CD for an up and coming band in the mid 90's. The Giraffe's later stuff is much better, but this is still a great CD to check out.

  • god is truly one of us
    author: Eusebius

    on the first track of the cd the giraffes make it clear they are no ordinary band...bringing together the power and rawness of judas priest and the melodic beauty of a schubert symphony to create a sound that draws from the soundscapes of the astronauts and the ventures...absolutely brilliant

  • author: Dubz Ass-assin

    This album is lovely to listen to and the band is a bunch of hotties. Tight, musicly.

  • pure genius
    author: Anonymous

    a work well deserved of celebration like fantasmic tingles of the curiosity of a child, waiting to hear what happens next you forget to breathe, then begin to hallucinate.gasping for air you get sucked under, and the music becomes your mantra.

  • author: Sharome

    I can't wait to get this CD so that I can cream to it day and night. The GIRAFFES visious wave of masculin power makes my but hole quiver!

  • author: Diana Zakow

    this is a great achievements, all of you, it's true, there's a sting, but only if you've been bitten, and to know you've been bitten, you've got to first feel the numbness and the silence of the bite, that's what this music is. if you really want to know, from someone who's just learned to apprieciate a work of art this charged. -diana zakow

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