Camille Penyak Ĭamille Penyak, the younger sister of Chelsea, is also a current Walter Worker. Photo by Beth Riley of Geekshot Photography. Now, at every show, the two women perform ballet during 'Hold Me', replacing their ballet performance during 'Turn Back the Clock', which was first done at their live show in Everett, Washington on February 28th 2015.Ĭhelsea Penyak is the main force behind all the merchandise getting to fans.Ĭamille as Walter Worker Camille. Chelsea and her sister were previously ballerinas when they were younger, and this aspect of their lives has very recently been put into Steam Powered Giraffe. She wears a short, choppy blue wig and goggles as well as the typical dress and striped socks. Chelsea's first appearance was around April of 2014 along side Carolina, who is no longer in the band. There was a great response and welcoming from the fans.
Chelsea Penyak Ĭhelsea Penyak was announced as the new Walter Worker late March 2014 in replacement of Paige Law, a previous Walter Worker. If you want to jump in and learn more about this group, check out their fantastic website.Chelsea as Walter Worker Chelsea. They’re so much fun and always entertaining. Just when I think I’ve found my favorite song, I really hear the lyrics to another and realize that I’ve found a new one. If you like folk rock, robots or simply have a taste for music that gets stuck in your head so that you can hum it all day long, this is a group that you owe it to yourself to check out. Like I said from the start, we all have different music taste, and this would not typically be something I’d be into, but their music and the performance of their characters as they sputter steam and question each other’s intellect is so charming and endearing that I can’t help but love them. I can’t say enough great things about their group.
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If you want to know more about the story, there is a full time line with amazing artwork HERE. And all of this is told through this amazing folk-rock that brought me joy, sadness and excitement by the end. It’s a crazy story about space whales and and space giants as well as a sentient satellite. His power core explodes, fracturing the space-time continuum and creating two parallel universes.
Essentially, it’s a two CD long space opera which tells the story of Rabbit, one of the main characters of Steam Powered Giraffe being tampered with. And while their newest album is what brought me back, I have to say that their 2014 release The Vice Quadrant is easily my favorite of their work. A few weeks ago, they released their newest album, Quintessential, which sent me down the path of collecting all of their music and listening to all of it in full. I’d first come into the knowledge of Steam Powered Giraffe years ago when a friend introduced me to their first album, Album One, which I knew I liked, but never really pursued them as a group.
Beyond the folksy sound, synthesizers and sci-fi effects are added to give the music a space opera feel. Listen to any song once and you’ll hear a funny song about robots, but listen to it multiple times and you start to hear a deeper message about individuality and finding purpose in the world. Its folksy like the songs you sang at camp, yet the lyrics speak of deeper truths, asking us to analyze whether or not we truly have a soul, or whether we can be dysfunctional yet still alive. This is all well and good, but what makes me so obsessed with this group? For one, the music is simply unlike anything else roaming around on my iPhone. Take a look at their performance below and you’ll see what I mean. To see them perform is not to merely listen to music, it is more an act of falling into this fictional world in order to learn about these characters, have a few laughs and maybe even learn a thing or two.
The group takes on the personas of very old, steam powered automatons. Even if this isn’t your music preference, you owe it to yourself to at least give them a chance.īack in 2008, twin siblings David Michael Bennett and Isabella “Bunny” Bennett got together with some other talented folks including performing artist Samuel Luke and created Steam Powered Giraffe, a musical project which has its roots in Vaudeville acts to Cabaret theater. To many, the band I’m about to talk about is going to seem a bit odd and less than conventional, but stick with me here, because Steam Powered Giraffe is one of the quirkiest little indie bands you’ll ever come across. This week is one that I considered doing last week for the first post, but waited as I wanted to really obsess over their music a bit longer. Hello and welcome back to Totally Obsessed, a little segment where I talk about the thing that has be going completely gaga during a given week.
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