词条 | Guilty Giraffe |
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| name = Guilty Giraffe | image = Guilty Giraffe at NJIRF.jpg | caption = Guilty Giraffe at the 2018 North Jersey Indie Rock Festival. | image_size = | background = group_or_band | origin = Yonkers, New York, U.S. | genre = Rock, post-hardcore, shoegaze | years_active = 2015–present | label = Mint 400 Records | associated_acts = | website = | current_members = Mathew McGinnis Kevin Knebel Shane Sumano Will Vellek }} Guilty Giraffe are an American rock band from New York. HistoryGuilty Giraffe started as a rock duo from Yonkers, New York that formed in 2015. Both members were self-taught musicians.{{sfn|Arlene's Grocery Staff|2017}} They self-produced and released their debut album A Time to Slime in December 2015. Jocelyn Huggler of The Deli describes it as "grimy energetic tunes [that] show a confident hand."{{sfn|Huggler|2016}} In a positive review in New York, columnist Nicole Disser calls the album "crashing chaos washed over with a kind of calm [...] leaving the noise to recede off into the distance," and adds "these are but brief intervals, I'll admit, but in that time Guilty Giraffe achieves something close to serenity."{{sfn|Disser|2016}} They have been classified as post-hardcore and shoegaze, and draw comparison to bands like the White Stripes, Nirvana and Fugazi.{{sfn|Huggler|2016}}{{sfn|Pirate! Staff|2017}} Guilty Giraffe made The A.V. Club's 2017 Year In Band Names list.{{sfn|Ryan|2017}} In 2017, they signed to the independent record label Mint 400 Records. Mint 400 RecordsTheir second album, Server Error. was released with Mint 400 Records on 9 May 2017. In a Pirate! press release, the album is described as "stoner grooves of an almost sped up Black Sabbath [that] will be sure to grab ahold of any music aficionados."{{sfn|Pirate! Staff|2017}} Will Vellek joined Guilty Giraffe in the Winter of 2018 on bass, and they played as a three-piece for a while, until Reis quit Guilty Giraffe in Spring of 2018 to follow other musical endeavors. Guilty Giraffe rebuilt the line-up, adding Kevin Knebel on drums, and Shane Sumano on bass. For the Mint 400 Records compilation NJ / NY Mixtape, which features artists that performed at 2018 North Jersey Indie Rock Festival, Guilty Giraffe contributed the song "Off Ripped."{{sfn|Makin|2018}}{{sfn|New Jersey Stage Staff|2018}} They also released their third album Filtered in 2018, which was entirely recorded by Felipe Reis and Mat Mcginnis years prior. Reis composes electronic music under the name Árvore.{{sfn|Arlene's Grocery Staff|2017}} Members
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