This is what goes on under the ocean

Artist: Giants (Cedar Falls, IA / Chicago, IL / St. Louis, MO)
Album: Old Stories (2008)
Label: Cavity Records (Toledo, OH)
Sounds Like: Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Mono
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This CD starts with a gorgeous crescendo of light and many, many guitar tracks. Right away any fans of post-rock should be salivating.

Giants sound very much like Explosions In The Sky until it, well, explodes. Giants get much heavier than Explosions ever do as they find themselves more on the side of Mono in that department.

At moments on the album Giants reveal their dark side. The repeating waves of depression and hopelessness crash down over and over again however they keep their beautiful and screaming guitar melodies very much in the foreground. It is as if their musical plain is a battlefield and what an epic and dazzling battle it is.

Giants have no singing so in the down time when there is typically (in post-rock) either singing or maybe just a guitar, Giants fill the void with a 'shoegazey' feedback (Deerhunter's Intro track off of Cryptograms comes to mind) or sweeping electronic drones.

As one song leads to the next this band has no trouble differentiating their sound and that is most evident through the different feels of the drummer. The drums often time mirror Explosions' drums (which is a HUGE compliment) and other times sound more like Boris' drums. I very highly recommend this band for fans of post-rock music. At last ashore.