Newcastle based eclectic rock outfit, Giant Walker, recently announced the release of their sophomore LP, Silhouettes, through Church Road Records, for the 20th of September, 2024. It was produced, mixed & mastered by Chris Coulter. They have just dropped the single and video for the album’s title track. Watch it in the article below.
Stream “Silhouettes” here: https://bfan.link/silhouettes-3
Pre-order Silhouettes here: https://churchroadrecords.com/products/giant-walker-silhouettes-pre-order
Vocalist Steff Fish shares, “Thematically, the song explores feelings of being constantly beaten down to the point where you want to bring everyone down with you – almost like life is out to trip you up at every corner and then smiling when you fall. Epitomised by the lyric – ‘I could dig a nice hole in the ground, but then I guess I can’t watch the world drown’”
The song displays the dimension of Giant Walker’s sound; a melancholic stripped-back intro launches into a huge and anthemic chorus, which weaves into a hypnotic, riff-driven bridge, and closes on a guitar solo, that is a masterful and emotive display of guitarist Jamie Southern’s technical prowess.
Giant Walker are a heavy progressive rock band from Newcastle, UK. After individually relocating 300 miles to further develop their craft, the Geordie quartet was coincidentally born in the South, bound together by their northern heritage and a shared love for bands such as Karnivool, Soundgarden, Radiohead and Deftones. Their music captures the many lows of loneliness and tips a hat to the music that gets you through hard times; sweeping you up in a conceptual journey, from giant riffs to melancholic melodies, and ambient soundscapes.
Giant Walker has stitched together a sound, woven from the fabric of their influences, that can’t be found elsewhere. Giant Walker’s debut album All In Good Time picked up coverage with the likes of BBC Radio 1 (Alyx Holcombe), Total Rock Radio (single of the week), Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, TIDAL, and many others. The band now return with the new LP to continue to prove why they’re one of the UK’s most exciting new bands.
Silhouettes tracklisting:
01 Time To Waste
02 Make Me
03 Silhouettes
04 Use On You
05 Halcion
06 Eraser, Obscurer
07 Round and Round We Go
08 So You Say
09 What It’s Worth
Band members:
Steff Fish – Vocals
Jamie Southern – Guitar
Jordan Gregory – Bass
Alex Black – Drums