Influential ’90s midwestern emo band Giants Chair is back after a 23-year absence. Their brand new album Prefabylon will be released on December 6 via Spartan Records.
Giants Chair have just released the brand new music video for ‘Kids Running’, a deep dive into their video archives put to the sound of a band who absolutely know their sound. The clips consist of footage shot by one of the band’s friends while they toured the west coast back in ’95.
Drummer Paul Ackerman says: “I think Scott’s story in ‘Kids Running’ is one of a young Midwestern kid yearning for escape, experience, and maybe a bit of adventure. It’s a road trip story – a ‘head west’ story. So when we saw the footage our old friend Jeremy shot from our tour out west with Boy’s Life in ’95, it seemed like the perfect way to visualize that story. That was our first real tour, so far from home, and the first time seeing the mountains and the Pacific Ocean for some of us. There were a lot of firsts, we had a shit-ton of fun – shaved head, tattooed hands and all – and we have lifelong friendships to go along with those memories. So yeah, it’s a pretty nostalgic piece, but just maybe some other Midwestern kids will see it and be inspired to head west as well.”
Check out the vid for ‘Kids Running’ below
With all of the band’s original core components and members still intact (which is incredibly impressive in this day and age) listeners needn’t brace for any departure from the band’s signature post-punk DNA. Equal parts early new wave, skate punk, prog, political folk, and ’70s and ’80s radio rock, Giants Chair’s influences can be traced across their now ‘era-transcending’ catalogue. “As a band,” Hobart says, “I think we must sound ‘midwestern.’ It’s essentially classic, no-frills, rock elements creating a big wall of melody. At turns, the music reminds me of rolling landscape, sky and highways, old factories and farms, distant street lights and radio towers – how these things make me feel.”
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