Giant Rooks is a German

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band from

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, 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.

Members

* Frederik Rabe * Finn Schwieters * Luca Göttner * Jonathan Wischniowski * Finn Thomas

History

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 (

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). In 2019 the EP ''Wild Stare'' was released with its title track being a

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radio hit in Italy and the whole EP racking up more than 50,000,000 world-wide streams on

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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. On the Official Singles Chart Top 100 of 25 March 2022 to 31 March 2022, the band achieved their first UK hit when their version of Suzanne Vega's "

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, charted at number 63.

Discography

Albums

* 2020 – ''Rookery'' (GER: #3)

EPs

* 2015 – ''The Times Are Bursting the Lines'' * 2017 – ''New Estate'' * 2019 – ''Wild Stare''

Singles

As lead artist

* 2017 – "New Estate" * 2017 – "Bright Lies" * 2018 – "Wild Stare" * 2019 – "

" (with

) * 2020 – "Watershed" * 2020 – "What I Know Is All Quicksand" * 2020 – "Heat Up" * 2022 - "Morning Blue"

As featured artist

* 2017 – "Another Heart / Another Mind" (Razz featuring Giant Rooks) * 2021 – "Isomnia" (Rin featuring Giant Rooks)

References

External links

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