"Graduated class with full honors, Searching for the jobs with no dollars"
The track Lazy by Richmond, Virginia's alt-punk band Chive Giants feels like an askew diorama of every amplified feeling of not fitting in to one of those high school clubs you don't even want to be a member of but kinda do because you think having that sweater or those shoes will make you cool and thus make you happy. But it won't, because happiness is elusive and you find it under untidy rocks. Ok, this may not be about this song but I digress.
I do like the sadcore sound here, the melodrama told with blue tinged distortion and big bells and lyrics sung about the fucking drudgery of life after you think you have done what you were "supposed to do". I thought of early Flaming Lips actually and Cigarettes After Sex (not the band, but actually cigarettes after sex- jk) and I love the surprising break with strings feeling elegantly punk in some way.
Lazy is from Chive Giant's full length album "The Passion Blaze".
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Chive Giants are a three piece rock/ alterapunk band from Richmond VA that specializes in creating melody-heavy songs with introspective lyrics about whatever comes to mind at the time. With a lineup comprised of long time friends, their drive to create music stems from the boredom that surrounds them and a desire for catharsis. The band is fronted by singer/guitarist Bacon, who struggled with the guitar for a few years before he learned to play "Nervous Breakdown" by Black Flag all the way through and is held together by the sprightly Carey on bass and the stoner Travis on drums, Chive Giants bring sounds influenced by Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and the Pixies on their debut full-length "The Passion Blaze" which was recorded in Richmond by veteran producer John Morand and mixed and mastered in Zwiesel, Germany by stalwart producer Benedikt Hain.
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Chive Giants are a three piece rock/ alterapunk band from Richmond VA that specializes in creating melody-heavy songs with introspective lyrics about whatever comes to mind at the time. With a lineup comprised of long time friends, their drive to create music stems from the boredom that surrounds them and a desire for catharsis. The band is fronted by singer/guitarist Bacon, who struggled with the guitar for a few years before he learned to play "Nervous Breakdown" by Black Flag all the way through and is held together by the sprightly Carey on bass and the stoner Travis on drums, Chive Giants bring sounds influenced by Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and the Pixies on their debut full-length "The Passion Blaze" which was recorded in Richmond by veteran producer John Morand and mixed and mastered in Zwiesel, Germany by stalwart producer Benedikt Hain.
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