“You’re In Heaven,” a new five-song EP by Bethel rock band Quiet Giant, follows “loom,” a full-length album from 2015, and two subsequent singles: “There’s No Future,” from April 2016, and “Bill Hicks” / “Everything,” released earlier this year.
In early 2016, at Mother Brother Studios, the quartet — singer-guitarist Danielle Capalbo, drummer Jared Thompson, guitarist William James Touri and bassist Mark Almodovar — played an early version of “Wake Up,” (originally called “I Wrote Myself A Note” in see video above), the second track on “You’re In Heaven,” as part of CTNow’s Press Play series.
The new EP unfolds as a continuous, 20-minute suite; songs flow from one to the next, and seem to get progressively more processed (compare the relatively dry production of “Heaven” to the ambient “Knee of the Curve”). Capalbo’s breathy, emotive voice is easy to fall in love with. And of all the hooks you’ll encounter, “Knee of the Curve” (“Oh, how much can you take? / Oh, how much did you take? You know better than that / You know better than that now, don’t you?”) might be the hookiest.
Quiet Giant recorded “You’re In Heaven” at Squirrel’s Nest Studio in West Haven and at Raven Blue Studios in Brookfield. It was mixed and mastered by Jeff Brown. The EP will be released by the New London-based Telegraph Recording Company and is available now for purchase on Bandcamp, and you can hear the five songs for free exclusively on CTNOW below. (For mobile users, click here.)
