Pipes

Shot and edited by Aaron Lazar Additional footage by Ted Maniatakos Guitar & Backing Vocals: Damien Paris Bass & Backing Vocals: Hannah Moorhead Drums, Percussion & Backing Vocals: Andrew Totolos Lyrics and Vocals: Aaron Lazar Recorded and engineered by Andrew Totolos at Apesauce Mixed by Francisco Botero at Studio G Mastered by Matt Labozza Written in response to the Flint water crisis as I suspected it was going to become a more commonplace thing everywhere. Hate to say I was right. I grew up in a place much like flint -Youngstown OH, a former steel boomtown in the rust belt that is slowly crumbling due to population loss and divestment by the government. The feeling of invisibility that hits you when you realize you depend on an infrastructure that hasn't been maintained or thought about in a few generations and that now everyone you know may be poisoned by a few peoples contempt and negligence is something else. I tried to make a song about that feeling. The bass part was invented by Hannah and it has this bubbling rushing tumbling quality to it that suggests a torrent of bad news. The middle section has a psychedelic vocal tumult that is some of my favorite stuff I have done in the giraffes. Though depressing and bleak, it's still a rager.