“EVERYONE IS SO quick to make everything black and white, but I think grey is always more interesting,” says Giant Walker vocalist and lyricist Steff Fish, when asked to explain her band’s nuanced approach to songwriting.
Her bandmate, guitarist Jamie Southern, picks up the thread. “The last thing the world needs is another love song. I don’t think any of us like anything that’s kind of like… ‘Bleugh… this is how I feel, eat it.’”
Listen to Giant Walker’s debut album, and that aversion to anything too straightforward makes perfect sense. The Geordies’ take onreaches its first chorus, the song has shifted on its axis three times, anchored by Steff’s clarion-clear, cathartic vocal melodies. Citing influences as wide-ranging as Deftones, Karnivool, Soundgarden and Radiohead, it’s a sound that’s tricky to pin down.
