After a comeback 30 years in the making, Giant Killers start to look forward with a four-track EP teasing their upcoming second album.
By Graeme Smith
Rising from their ashes of their promising ‘90s career, Giant Killers’ debut Songs For The Small Places was a triumph. It took the band decades to wrestle the rights back for it, and it was worth the wait.
So, now it’s out in the world, what is their new material going to sound like. Well, the EP The Boy Who Went Delulu and Other Stories gives us some idea.
The collection consists of four tracks that will feature on their second album, its title track, Standing On A Ledge Again, Soho Story, and Hope Our Love Lives. The latter sees Giant Killers team up with Gibbo to deliver a bold and brassy final highlight.
Across the record we get shades of indie pop that combines nods to ‘90s Britpop and modern elements. It feels fresh and Giant Killers natural talents and ear for hooks shines through.
Collectively, the tracks look at the underbelly of love, exploring unrealistic romantic fantasies and dark, obsessive, and compulsive behaviours.
“Our new work isn’t such a departure from Songs For The Small Places, which was about how the place you come from shapes your outlook – for good and bad, and how you always carry a little bit of that place with you in your heart,” say the band. “Many would describe that feeling as love.
“Our upcoming album explores love through many lenses, both positive and negative – obsession, compulsion, devotion, commitment, slavery, and many other variations are dealt with as we attempt to walk a trapeze between the underbelly of love and the bright side. It’s an interesting thematic for us writers as love is the most covered subject, often in the most saccharine ways, in the canon of popular music – which makes it ripe for a bit of a shake up without losing our pop sensibilities.”
The Boy Who Went Delulu and Other Stories is out now, and you can listen to it below.