Purge & Slouch is an album by the American band Giant Sand, released in 1993 through the German label Brake Out Records...Frontman Howe Gelb referred to the music as "smash jazz"

USA Today called the album "charmingly tattered", noting that "Gelb mixes a half-dozen genres with his off-kilter sensibilities to produce addictive countrified folk-rock."

LA Weekly called the album "ragged-edged, tumultuous, inward and poetic". The New York Daily News stated that "Gelb has given his rundown, dusty music an unrushed allure and made a sound as expansive as a desert sky." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nR8oNYaoFLob7V3CWQ3rJx-L0dbJKQps8

#GiantSand #HoweGelb #Americana #FolkRock #Music

Giant Sand, Returns To Valley of Rain, 2018 on Fire Records

https://goatless.org/2026/05/25/giant-sand-returns-to-valley-of-rain-2018-on-fire-records

Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with The Shadow of Your Smile the debut album by the American band Friends of Dean Martinez, released in 1995. The band included members of two Arizona bands: Joey Burns and John Convertino, of Giant Sand, and Bill Elm, Tom Larkins, and Van Christian, of Naked Prey. The band changed their name from Friends of Dean Martin right before the album's release, after threat of legal action by Martin's representatives.

Trouser Press wrote that "a lot of main writer Burns' originals have the jivey cool of an Angelo Badalamenti score, but the group's most potent and useful ability is to conjure up romantic visions of the desert at twilight." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVr3y1ZPzk&list=PL3CJhoKhRDq-4rkYsi6BsO06t7v2-wHs-&index=1

#FriendsOfDeanMartinez #GiantSand #NakedPrey #SubPop #SurfMusic #Lounge #Music

@Theresacityinmymind recently reminded me about #GiantSand, who I had the pleasure of seeing live a bunch of times in early/mid-90s Austin TX. Still love their brooding live take on "You're So Vain" - feat. the inimitable #VicChesnutt (RIP) on vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1bh3TEvvc

#NowPlaying #SaturdayOnStage

G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 9/21/25

I check out an album by Giant Sand, and the latest albums by Craig David, and Peyton.

Favorite Videos include SLOWWVES' COSMOS Session, a classic episode of Music Bank, and more!

https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-9-21-25

#Music #MusicVideo #1001Albums #GiantSand #CraigDavid #Peyton #Slowwves #COSMOSSession #MusicBank

Your eyes are magnets
Where darkness has found another home
They've distanced your friends
Now you're wandering alone
Their sorrow seeps through straight to the bone
The pulse is slowing to a deadly pace
The sweat keeps pouring off your melting face

OP8 - Lost In Space

https://youtu.be/xlay7jErDkc?feature=shared

#indierock #giantsand

"Giant Sand has meandered around the fringes of indie-rock popularity for nearly 20 years, releasing about that many wildly diverse full-length recordings...—Giant Sand has burrowed into obscurity a bit, releasing only a tiny handful of home recordings since its failed attempt at the big-time. The Arizona band's new Official Bootleg Series Volume One is as small-time as recordings get: With a pressing of 2,000 and distribution only by mail, odds are good that fans of the band's low-key, ramshackle side won't even know it exists. The recording itself displays the slow-moving, quiet side of Giant Sand—no guitar freakouts to speak of here—as well as, of course, the distinctively cracking voice of idiosynchratic frontman Howe Gelb. By definition it's not for everyone, but fans of shambling releases like Glum will enjoy the gentility and modesty of these recordings."

Stephen Thompson for The AV Club

#giantsand #howegelb