Giant Rooks Release ‘IF HEAVEN EXISTS, THIS MIGHT BE IT’
The band recorded its third album at Angelic Studios and Real World Studios in England.
Giant Rooks have released their third studio album, IF HEAVEN EXISTS, THIS MIGHT BE IT. The 12-song record follows ROOKERY and How Have You Been?, exploring the search for connection through songs about loss, memory, love, and friendship. Across the album, the band considers those relationships against feelings of alienation and inner conflict, framing its title around the possibility of finding comfort in everyday life.
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Work began in early 2025, with initial concepts and demos preceding the first studio session in July at Angelic Studios in the English countryside. The band returned to the UK a few months later for a second recording phase at Real World Studios. Across both sessions, Giant Rooks pursued an analog, hands-on approach, aiming for a more immediate way of making music amid the wide range of technological tools available to them.
Reflecting on the process, the band said: “We have been together as a band for more than ten years now. Working on this album was the most difficult thing we have ever done. We began in early 2025, and from the outset, we tried to free ourselves from any external expectations and simply make the music that felt completely authentic to us.”
The singles “The Future Is Cancelled,” “Want It Back,” “The Waves,” and “Slow Dance (For A Minute)” introduced the project. Their themes range from melancholy and new beginnings to returning memories and the desire to preserve a fleeting moment. Musically, the album draws on piano, guitar, drums, and layered synthesizers, moving between introspective passages and more forceful arrangements within the band’s indie-pop sound.
Giant Rooks will also take the new material on tour, with performances planned across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as North and South America. The album’s artwork revisits the imagery of ROOKERY: where that cover depicted a fall through clouds, the new image presents a gentler sense of floating.
