Music like Giant Rooks

Giant Rooks is a German indie band from Hamm, which was founded in 2014. In 2019 they won the 1Live Krone Award and the Preis für Popkultur. Their debut album Rookery was released on 28 August 2020.

The band was founded in 2014 by the cousins Frederik Rabe and Finn Schwieters and the piano player Jonathan Wischniowski and was soon completed by the addition of bass player Luca Göttner and drummer Finn Thomas. In 2015 they released their first self-produced EP 'The Times Are Bursting The Lines'. This first release was followed by another EP New Estate in 2017 which gained them first critical success. The release was supported by hundreds of shows all over Europe eventually landing them a record deal with Irrsinn Tonträger (Universal Music). In 2019 the EP Wild Stare was released with its title track being a top 20 radio hit in Italy and the whole EP racking up more than 50,000,000 world-wide streams on Spotify soon after its release. In 2020 they announced the release of their debut album ROOKERY for 28 August 2020. Radio X DJ John Kennedy played the band's single 'All We Are' on his X-Posure radio show, on the album's release.