| Origin: | Hamm, Germany |
| Years Active: | 2014–present |
| Current Members: | Frederik Rabe Finn Schwieters Finn Thomas Jonathan Wischniowski Luca Göttner |
Giant Rooks are a German indie rock band from Hamm, Germany founded in 2014.[1] In 2019 they won the 1Live Krone Award[2] and the Preis für Popkultur.[3] Their debut album Rookery was released on 28 August 2020.[4]
The band was founded in 2014 by the cousins Frederik Rabe and Finn Schwieters and the piano player Jonathan Wischniowski and was soon completed by the addition of bass player Luca Göttner and drummer Finn Thomas.[5] In 2015, they released their debut self-produced EP The Times Are Bursting The Lines. This was followed by another EP New Estate in 2017, which earned them critical acclaim. The release was supported by hundreds of shows all over Europe, eventually landing them a record deal with Irrsinn Tonträger of Universal Music.[6]
In 2019, the EP Wild Stare was released with its title track being a top 20 radio hit in Italy[7] and the whole EP racking up more than 50,000,000 world-wide streams on Spotify soon after its release.[8] In 2020, Giant Rooks announced the release of their debut album ROOKERY on 28 August 2020. Radio X DJ John Kennedy played the band's single "All We Are" on his X-Posure radio show,[9] on the album's release. They went on tour in North America with fellow German band Milky Chance in 2021.[10]
On the Official Singles Chart Top 100 of 25 March 2022 to 31 March 2022, the band achieved their first UK hit when their version of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner", with AnnenMayKantereit, charted at number 63.[11] [12] They had concerts in the United States in late 2022.[13]
In 2023, Giant Rooks were one of the openers for English singer-songwriter Louis Tomlinson on the North American leg of his Faith in the Future World Tour, joining at the Nashville concert through the end of the leg before embarking on their own headliner.[14]
In 2019 when asked who has influenced their music the most, Giant Rooks answered "Definitely artists like Bob Dylan and Bon Iver."[15] Other influences they have named as a band include James Blake, Celeste, and Joy Crookes.[16]
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [17] | AUT [18] | SWI [19] | |||
| Rookery[20] |
| 3 | 16 | 28 | |
| How Have You Been? |
| 1 | 31 | 18 | |
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | |||||||||||||||
| [21] |
| — | |||||||||||||
| New Estate[22] |
| — | |||||||||||||
| Wild Stare[23] |
| 61 | |||||||||||||
| Rookery Live Tapes[24] |
| 12 | |||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | AUS [25] | AUT | CAN [26] | IRE [27] | SWI | UK [28] | US [29] | ||||||||
| "Småland"[30] | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "New Estate"[31] | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | New Estate | |||||
| "Bright Lies"[32] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "Wild Stare" | 2018 | 97 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Wild Stare | |||||
| "100 mg" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Tom's Diner" | 76 | 18 | 48 | 38 | 33 | 86 | 63 | 78 | |||||||
| "Watershed"[37] | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rookery | |||||
| "Heat Up"[38] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "Morning Blue"[39] | 2022 | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Bedroom Exile"[40] | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Somebody Like You"[41] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "Under Your Wings" | 2024 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | AUT | SWI | |||||||||||||
| "Another Heart / Another Mind"[42] | 2017 | — | — | — | Nocturnal | ||||||||||
| "Insomnia"[43] | 2021 | 25 | 45 | 79 | Kleinstadt | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Mia & Keira" | 2017 | New Estate |
| "King Thinking" | 2019 | Wild Stare |
| "What I Know is All Quicksand"[44] | 2020 | Rookery |
| "Misinterpretations"[45] | ||
| "All We Are" | ||