Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Formerly known as Canada's version of Battles, Giantess is a blistering exercise in profundity, veering wildly from accelerated rave-ups to introspective ballads that tug at the heart (often with tongue planted firmly in cheek). Giantess delivers with the poetic grandeur of Bryan Ferry or Graeme Downs at their absolute peak, and with the muscle & pathos of The Soft Boys or Jesus of Cool-era Nick Lowe. Giantess is first & foremost a relationship record that relies on sentiments bo...   [ read more ]

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Giantess, formerly known as The Battles, are a rock n' roll band from Vancouver, British Columbia. Stephen Wood formed the group in 1997 to record and perform his songs, and in the ten years since has experienced a shift in personnel that has seen members of Destroyer, New Pornographers, Black Mountain and Precious Fathers pass through the ranks. The new album, Giantess, is an exercise in profundity. Veering wildly from accelerated rave-ups to introspective ballads that tug at the heart (often with tongu...   [ read more ]

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Growing out of bandleader Stephen Wood's work leading the Battles -- and handily avoiding confusion with the other, increasingly more-well-known Battles on Touch and Go -- Giantess' self-titled debut features Wood and companions creating an amiable collection of garagey songs both hyperactive and reflective. Wood's approach is loving but a bit hampered by its formalism -- much of it feels like the '80s indie rock that in itself was a tribute to '60s rock & roll, and while sound a...   [ read more ]

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