Giant Claw & Holly Waxwing - Together, Our Thing (2025)

When I would tour the US as Giant Claw, I would stay with friends across the country and spend a few extra days hanging out and recording music. This is how me and James made Evangelis and I’ll Try Living Like This, but during that period I also stopped several times in Alabama to record with the artist Holly Waxwing.

The majority of this mixtape was made during those sessions, where we explored mixing stark textural sounds (mostly made with the Ableton FM synth Operator) with lots of bass and synthesized percussion, vocal samples, and a sense of both abrasive and bittersweet pop energy.

In the following years for whatever reason we never managed to finish the recordings in a satisfying way, so I’ve taken this opportunity to revisit the material, add new elements and finally call it done.

- Keith