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Cigarette is a name that just popped into my mind out of the blue. We tried several titles but this word “cigarette” just seemed to suit the record best. Thos now rare and expensive and terrible treats that both kill and sustain you. Anachronistic and awkward, beautiful and trashy, plant, paper, fire and whatever else that happened to linger in the philip morris production line. This collection of songs comes from a cinematic place. We started off attempting to make a record that was spiritually similar to our spaghetti western soundtrack “A Gentleman Never Tells” and with a few detours i think we have arrived there. A score for our current age of decay and disappointment, fear and fury, idiocy and hope.

We are proud to present 'The Shot', a hypnotic rock-meets-psychedelic-surf earworm that shimmers between shadowy depths and sunlit crescendos. This is the first taste of their eighth album 'Cigarette', slated for release on September 27, in which we promise "a score for our current age of decay and disappointment, fear and fury, idiocy and hope". 

Can you tell i am cribbing from the press release?

With lead singer Aaron Lazar and guitar maestro Damien Paris as its core, drummer Andrew Totolos provides the locomotive rhythm section with Hannah Moorhead anchoring the bass. This year marks the beginning of a new era for the band, with Moorhead now also contributing backing vocals and songwriting. With the line-up no longer in flux, the focus is now largely on songwriting.  

The result is 'Cigarette', an album full of surprises, taking new risks with subject matter and composition, while maintaining the intensity and dexterity fans know and love. Recorded & engineered by Andrew Totolos at Apesauce Studio, this album was mixed by Grammy nominated producer Francisco Botero (Matisyahu, Odesza) at the legendary Studio G Brooklyn and by James Dellatacoma (Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, TS Monk, John Zorn, Angelique Kidjo) at Bill Laswell's famed Orange Music Sound Studio.

"'The Shot' is a song about Gen x (my generation), which has always chronically undersold itself. We have limited desires and, as a result, we tend to see limited returns. We were raised by these selfish boomers and we really don't want to become like that but, at the same time, the rules we must live by still happen to be boomer rules," says Aaron Lazar.

"Consequently, we (or honestly I) fall into the trap of pulling back and looking at the larger picture. The bigger story of degradation and cope that leads us to envisioning a paradise on the other side of this disappointment of an existence. This is a song about millennialism I suppose, where we are doomed to fail, but forced to race nonetheless."

Prime Motivator was released on 10/3/08 and to celebrate we have worked up some swag using the album design. Maybe one day we will be able to afford actual vinyl - if you buy enough shirts….

turn on the captions for this one folks….

Look like you meant business…

This came out in 2016 but the director and our dear friend Shawn Regruto has just passed of cancer. It was the highest level we have ever worked at in video. He absolutely threw himself into it and was a force of nature. Life isn’t Fair. Life is short. Life is beautiful. He made it more so.

Bubble Scum Video On YouTube

JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING- It should go without saying that the hand gesture we all grew up knowing as “A-Ok” 👌🏿(that now due to the wonders of white dipshits apparently also means something disgusting) is intended to be read in the traditional “A-OK” manner.
FUCK WHITE SUPREMACY

Now back to your regularly scheduled video credits...

A Dirty Work Production

Directed & Edited by Andrei Zakow & Damien Paris

Art Direction, Production Design, VFX, Color & Titles by Angélique Georges

Cinematography by Andrei Zakow

"To us there is nothing like a Giraffes show: exhilarating, revitalizing, beautifully destructive, surprising and always outlined with a trace of fear. An evening with The Giraffes is a celebration of humanity unified in the power and spirit of Rawk against the oppressive forces of the Man. In making this video we wanted to try and recreate some of that experience in their live performances while commenting on the current climate of disconnection by highlighting the duality of the appendage that has brought about so much destruction and yet can spread so much love. Here's to touching you again." - Andrei Zakow, Angélique Georges and the Dirty Work team

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What is the song "Bubble Scum" about? Glad you asked.

It's is a desert rock dirge about crisis capitalism told from the point of view of an arch creep who’s seen it all and done a little more. A character who’s skepticism in humanity extends into everything. These lyrics came to me while thinking about how little we all do forgo the looming environmental disaster “what we feel doesn't change the things we do” - just like a frog in that slowly warming pot of water. “It’s almost here” can sound horrible to someone who’s just trying to make a living in a deteriorating precarious existence but the same line can sound like a dinner bell to a rapacious oligarch who’s leveraging every bad thing into more power and influence for themselves. Things are set to get ‘realer’ so we're heartened to see younger people are not as fatalistic and complacent as our generation. Right on kids.

P.S. Just to reiterate, FUCK WHITE SUPREMACY. Black Lives Matter, everyday, all day, to the end of time and then some.

Adam Franklin of the legendary shoegaze outfit Swervedriver, took apart the bubble, zuzzed the scum, blew some foggy love and other vapors into it and then sent it adrift to imprison one or all of us along some Welch beachhead. We love it and think you will too.

Links to help people in red states take control of their reproductive systems.