![]() ![]() I’d first come into the knowledge of Steam Powered Giraffe years ago when a friend introduced me to their first album, Album One, which I knew I liked, but never really pursued them as a group. Beyond the folksy sound, synthesizers and sci-fi effects are added to give the music a space opera feel. Listen to any song once and you’ll hear a funny song about robots, but listen to it multiple times and you start to hear a deeper message about individuality and finding purpose in the world. Its folksy like the songs you sang at camp, yet the lyrics speak of deeper truths, asking us to analyze whether or not we truly have a soul, or whether we can be dysfunctional yet still alive. This is all well and good, but what makes me so obsessed with this group? For one, the music is simply unlike anything else roaming around on my iPhone. Take a look at their performance below and you’ll see what I mean. To see them perform is not to merely listen to music, it is more an act of falling into this fictional world in order to learn about these characters, have a few laughs and maybe even learn a thing or two. The group takes on the personas of very old, steam powered automatons. ![]() Even if this isn’t your music preference, you owe it to yourself to at least give them a chance.īack in 2008, twin siblings David Michael Bennett and Isabella “Bunny” Bennett got together with some other talented folks including performing artist Samuel Luke and created Steam Powered Giraffe, a musical project which has its roots in Vaudeville acts to Cabaret theater. To many, the band I’m about to talk about is going to seem a bit odd and less than conventional, but stick with me here, because Steam Powered Giraffe is one of the quirkiest little indie bands you’ll ever come across. This week is one that I considered doing last week for the first post, but waited as I wanted to really obsess over their music a bit longer. Hello and welcome back to Totally Obsessed, a little segment where I talk about the thing that has be going completely gaga during a given week. ![]()
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