With nary a word spoken over the course of its 11 songs, on paper (sans the title), Giraffe’s Towering Inferno With Bongo Drums would seem to be for the jazz or jam-band set: It was recorded in one day after the four players had developed familiarity with each other by performing improv sets in their hometown of L.A. And while the bulk of instruments are ones you would spy in a jazz nightclub—12-string guitar, fretless bass, drums and the like—it’s the other tools that propel Giraffe’s debut record into the far reaches of outer space: electronics, a Clavinet, an electric sitar and samples galore.
2BYG – WYW remix feat. Tahjaee single (Def Jam) Accursed Womb – Hymns of Blasphemous Fornication (Nespithe) Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker – Songs for Sad Poets Vol. III (American Dreams) Argul – Soledad & Orgullo (Personal) Azatoth – Carnal Lust of Blasphemy (Extremely Rotten) Black Marble – Life in Small Spaces (Sacred Bones) Mark Ciani – Utopia (self-release) Destin Conrad – Roadrunner (Above Ground/ Empire) The Cramps – Greatest Gravy (unreleased 1977 album produced by Alex Chilton) (Vengeance) Cutthroat – Purge EP (M-Theory) Dark Funeral – Beast to Praise (Century Media/ InsideOut) Deathgrave – Hell Is Evil (Tankcrimes) Dream Phases – Little Blue Magnolia single (self-release) Enhypen – Sin: Bliss EP Famous Strangers – s/t (self-release) Feeders – Dark Days Fen – Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth (Prophecy)
Brandon Flowers – Thrasher (Island) Foglights – Nous Deux EP (Skep Wax/ Slumberland) French Film – Yours + Five (Solid Brass) From Ashes to New – Die for You (feat. Neoni) single (Better Noise) Riviera Gaz (feat. Steve Shelley) – Catacroma (Vampire Blues) GB – Herzsprung (Posh Isolation) Ghost Hounds – Justified Giraffe – Towering Inferno With Bongo Drums (Org Music/ Aquarium Drunkard) Hey, Nothing – Hound (Music Soup/ Interscope) Sawyer Hill – Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy (AWAL) Paris Jackson – Happiest Day of My Life (Republic) Jamie James – Steppin’ Back 2009 (Oglio) Lexi Jayde – Lover Girl (Columbia) Coco Jones – Love Me Through single (High Standardz/ Def Jam) Korpse – Forbid EP (Unique Leader) Lambchop – Punching the Clown (Merge)
