[Cover photo by Ebru Yildiz]

Brooklyn Alternative Rock outfit The Giraffes have released their eighth album, Cigarette. It was recorded and engineered by Andrew Totolos at Apesauce Studio. The band also recently released the single “Pipes“, a “psychedelic protest anthem born from the fear of widespread environmental neglect.”

The Giraffes offer a mixture of Heavy Rock, Punk, Post-Punk, Surf, and whatever else they find interesting.   This year marks the beginning of a new era for the band with wider collaboration on songwriting.

Aaron Lazar says about the album:

‘Cigarette’ is a name that just popped into my mind out of the blue. We tried several titles but this word “cigarette” just seemed to suit the record best. Those now rare and expensive and terrible treats that both kill and sustain you. Anachronistic and awkward, beautiful and trashy, plant, paper, fire and whatever else that happened to linger in the philip morris production line.

This collection of songs comes from a cinematic place. We started off attempting to make a record that was spiritually similar to our spaghetti western soundtrack “A Gentleman Never Tells” and with a few detours i think we have arrived there. A score for our current age of decay and disappointment, fear and fury, idiocy and hope.

Over the years, The Giraffes have toured with Eagles of Death Metal, Local-H, The Vacation and Skeleton Key, and shared the stage with Interpol, Fishbone, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and The Strokes.