[Cover photo credit to Clifford Usher]

The band Giraffe has announces their debut album, The Towering Inferno With Bongo Drums, arriving August 21, 2026, via a co-release from Org Music and Aquarium Drunkard. Alongside the announcement, the quartet has shared their first single, “Catastrophe Music.” The album will arrive digitally, on cassette, and on vinyl.

Giraffe brings together four musicians from Psychedelic Rock, Jazz, improvisation, and experimental music: Dave Harrington (Darkside), Robert Walter (The Greyboy Allstars), Spencer Zahn, and Kosta Galanopoulos (Rio Kosta). What began as a one-off improvisational performance quickly evolved into a band celebrating the “thrill of collective discovery.”

The band captured their new album live in one day. The resulting album captures four players “listening, reacting, and creating in real time.” It was born entirely in the studio.

Across the album, Harrington’s guitar, 12-string guitar, electric sitar, sampler, and electronics weave through Walter’s electric piano, organ, Clavinet, and synthesizers, while Zahn’s fretless bass and Galanopoulos’ dynamic drumming create a framework.

Produced, mixed, and mastered by Harrington and engineered by Tyler Karmen at 64 Sound, The Towering Inferno With Bongo Drums documents the earliest work of a band that never intended to become one.