Here is some of the press that we've gotten recently:

Weekly Alibi-July 20, 2006, by Laura Marrich
School of Rock

It all started innocently enough, when newlyweds Maury and Connie Crandall were up late one night watching "The David Letterman Show." The musical guest was terrible. So bad, in fact, the two agreed they could do better themselves and decided to form a band on the spot. The Giranimals were born, not unlike a secret pact made in a tree house.
Stylistically, everything about this band--from their name (inspired by a children's clothing company) to the care-free lyrical content of their songs to the art on their new album, Imperfectly Timed Words —is a nod to the innocence of childhood. "In real life we're happy-go-lucky people," says Maury, "so that's the type of music that just comes naturally to us."Imperfectly Timed Words is a wonderful catalog of indie-pop melodies that are quaint without veering into irritating territory. It's like listening to a mother coo a little ditty about nothing to her baby. You can almost feel warm, sudsy water brushing up against your skin. Creating the album was a family affair in more ways than one. It was recorded at Maury's stepfather's studio in Arizona--the same place his brother Marty used to cut Flake Music's first album. Since finding success with The Shins, The Giranimals say they've benefited from Marty's brotherly advice. "He's always told me to be realistic," Maury says. "If big things don't happen for The Giranimals, it's not really a big deal for us since we have families, careers and lives outside of music. We're happy."

Albuquerque Tribune August 18, 2006, by Paul Maldonado Jr.
Review of Imperfectly Timed Words

This Duke City quartet's debut LP is full of jangly guitar pop, female vocals (which can be a bit twee at times) and a definite lo-fi vibe (in a good way). Led by sister/brother duo Connie (lead vocals, guitar) and Maury (drums, backing vocals) Crandall, the Giranimals are lost in the '60s pop heyday (in fact, "Bonnie & Ned" could pass as a Monkees' outtake).
"You Were Born First" laments being second but pulls rank over an older sibling. Actually, most of these tunes seem autobiographical: "For Shelly" could be a preteen's journal/diary entry; the love song/plea "Cry Another Day"; "The SOund Ultra" is pure jangle heaven; and the slow-tempo "We'll Wait Another Day" concerns a broken heart and unrequited love.
The band exhibits a maturity in its storytelling as well. "Ghost Town" deals with teen angst, while "July" revisits it 10 years gone. The CD nicks its title from a lyric off "July," which has a hooky melody and down-tempo ending. Most all of these songs will conjure a sense of place, either Albuquerque or New Mexicoor the wide open spaces in between.
And any band that references Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" in nothing less than a power-pop ode ("F" which has a Breeders-like charm) has my vote.

PitchPerfectReviews.com September 23, 2006, by Rachel Heisler
Grooving on the Giranimals

Although we have posted other reviews before this one (shame on us), they were not, in fact, the first CDs we received for review. In actuality, The Giranimals' Imperfectly Timed Words was the very first submission to Pitch Perfect Reviews. So a big, huge thank you and a humble apology for not getting this review written sooner goes out to the members of The Giranimals.
This Albuquerque-based band is made up of Connie Crandall (vocals/guitar), Maury Crandall (drums/vocals), Fox Fletcher (guitar) and Jamie Rushad (bass), and claims to have been born from a secret pact in a treehouse. Well, the secret is out and the group is busy bopping around and spreading the happy vibe in Burque and elsewhere.
The song "Bonnie and Ned" and many other tunes has a poppy, retro feel, and the music is a blend of Beach Boys-style pop, a peppy surf sound (if you close your eyes you can almost see the Brady Bunch on stage singin' these songs in their polyester bellbottoms and leather fringe vests) and most noticeably, a fixation on melody. On the whole, The Giranimals' music is simple but not simplistic, cute but not cheesy. It's not a kind of music you hear very often in Albuquerque or anywhere else for that matter, and that's the most pleasing part. The only distracting aspect of Imperfectly Timed Words is that sometimes Connie's lyrics are illegible due to the fact that her vocal parts are so high, as is the case with the opening track, "The Sound Ultra." Fortunately the glitch is only an occasional one, and her soprano parts are pretty and worth missing out on a few words here and there.
One of the record's more memorable songs is, "For Shelly," which is absolutely adorable both musically and lyrically: "Today's the day when all her dreams just might come true / Her clothes are all laid out, new ones just for school / She walks downstairs only two hours to go / Time to show the world all that she knows / I like my teacher but sometimes he talks too fast / The boy who sits up front, cutest in my class / Today is the best day of the best week of the best year of my life / Some day I'll grow and move into my own place / I'll have a tv and plenty of space."

While the chances that "For Shelly" will win awards for its profundity are slim, the song is deserving of a nod for being one sweet little ditty, and lucky Shelly has been immortalized through song and there's no better gift for a girl than that.
The Giranimals put on a fantastic and fun show, so the next time you find yourself driving through New Mexico, keep one eye open for signs of a live performance, don your party wear and prepare for an evening of merrymaking.

Albuquerque Journal July 21, 2006 by Dan Mayfield
Giranimals a Fun Frolic Into Pop Music

There's Pamela Panda, she likes bear hugs and lives in a cub house.
Geraldine Giraffe? Well, she's not afraid to stick her neck out. She likes "Life at the Top." And Maury Muskratt? Wait, there's no Maury the Muskratt in the Garanimals. But in The Giranimals, there's a whole crew making music who should be Garanimals characters. Along with Maury, there could be Colleen Kitty, or Fox the Bear, or Jamie the Joey. They would all like pop music and live on easy street.
According to the Garanimals Web site— spelled with an a, not an i— the Garanimals were started as a clothing line to teach kids to dress themselves.
The Giranimals, however, were really started two years ago when Maury and Connie Crandall stopped by the Guitar Boy shop and asked the clerk if he knew any guitar players. Fox Fletcher was teaching a lesson, and was called out. "Fox was like, 'Huh? Do I know you?' '' Maury Crandall said. "I didn't think they were bad," Fletcher said when he heard the band. "But I could make them better." The Giranimals were started as a fun project by the Crandalls, and it's turned more serious as the band has grown more popular.
The band will hold a CD release party tonight at Burt's Tiki Lounge for its first CD, "Imperfectly Timed Words." The release party also will feature a new CD from The Cherry Tempo. Band members don't take it badly if you call them pop. "The Beatles were pop," Maury said. In fact, said bass player Jamie Rushad, the band revels in the difficulty of writing a hard-core pop song. "We want something that's catchy but not annoying," Fletcher said. "But not so much that it would make a good commercial jingle."It works. The new CD is full of songs that with slightly different arrangements The Lovin' Spoonful or The Turtles would've made hits from, led by Connie Crandall's singing. The CD was even recorded to capture that vintage '60s sound. And, it's all in good fun.

WigWamBam #70, by Captain America
Live Show Review

...we just had to check the Giranimals after their six-month baby-birthing hiatus. They sounded better than they thought, almost as if they hadn't stopped at all, with that sweet and lilt-y Velocity Girl style. At the Tops of the 'burque Pops, it was just lovely. Anyone bold enough to cover the Lovin' Spoonful and pull it off gracefully --You Didn't Have To Be So Nice -- deserves hugs from John Sebastian himself. Welcome Back.

WigWamBam #71, by Captain America
Live Show Review

The night started at Burt's with the intensely sweet Giranimals who pull back just shy of making your cavities ache. Unlike cheap gum that loses its flavor in a few minutes, there's lots of good melody and hooks to chew on. The flavor lasts and you can blow big bubbles to boot. All that's missing is those little Bazooka comics-wrappers to save up for swell prizes. I wonder how many I'd have to collect to score one of Maury's beautiful vintage drum kits...?

NewWest Network February 3, 2006, by Jim Phillips
The Giranimals, So Happy Together

This music is being made by people who are not just pretending to have a good time. They aren't out for revenge, nor are they mean, low or crude musicians. The Giranimals conjure up vintage music, heartfelt and warm. The Giranimals, have a fine, catchy version of those days, Their overtly charming pop songs are untroubled and breezy. They will serve to move your loneliness and troubles a mile away.
With a full length recording soon to be released and a captivating, poptastic live show, The Giranimals will be wiling their way into your head and heart before long. Catch them next at The Launchpad on March 10. Congratulations. You've just found the band that is not afraid to be The Real Thing. Click here to listen to "Cry Another Day."

Indiepop.it
Review of Imperfectly Timed Words

Le chitarre non arrivano alla fine del giro e tu dici che non ne hanno bisogno. E' indiepop, darling. Una scordatezza, leggerezza, giovinezza estremamente riconoscibili. Anche il timbro vocale al limite della spezzatezza; se si rompe si rompe come un giocattolo e nessuno ci fa molto caso tranne la donna delle pulizie.
Sta ascoltando i Cardigans mentre passa l'aspirapolvere. L'omino con i due detersivi e il whiskey ineffabile di nascosto cambia cd e mette i Giranimals. Inizialmente Colf non se ne accorge, poi subito pensa ad una cover dei Beatles, poi infine non ha il nome per dire che tutto sembra più limpido e pulito e che i Giranimals sono più catchy e simpa e che è giusto vada così. Rispetto ai Cardigans, quasi punk.
Armonie vocali talvolta al limitare d'un ritorno al futuro ben curato e mestiere propizio a far avvenire piccole magie in pista.
Cosa si deve richiedere di più a dei giovani che si fregiano di impasticciarsi di Association e Zombies e che ricambiano la solerte chimica dell'ascolto retrogrado con una distinzione meravigliosamente spensierata?
A mio modo di ascoltare il pregio più prezioso di queste parole asincrone è proprio nella scorrevole impretenziosità, nella lieve, aerea fornitura di perfetta misura.
In altre parole, they are perfectly timed, altrochè. Times are not a-changing.
Le chitarre ridotte, le melodie saltellanti e tetragone nel loro saltellare spariscono dietro una muraglia a secco di buone intenzioni. Altri hanno tentato questa strada, anche se non mi pare di poterne rintracciare fra quelli fra cui li rintracciano i Giranimals (c'est a dire Pavement, Shins, Wilco). Direi piuttosto Heavenly, Talula Gosh, e, perché no, Bettie Serveert senza distorsione che recita al contrario.
Ogni tanto fa capolino un altro strumento oltre la chitarra ("You were born first") e sembra una grande trovata psichedelica. E' il gioco della strutturazione, non serve un nagual, serve un po' di vita sbarazzina per potervi incastonare questo disco. Se non l'avete, lavorateci, ché il superfluo e la sua possibilità nasconde i migliori tesori.
Immaginatevi con "The sound ultra" a far sventolare bei foulard
Non state andando da nessuna parte, ma lo state facendo con stile. Non ve ne importa nulla della storia e siete serviti. Forse state andando a quel paese, ma nessuno ve lo farà mai notare.
Se ce la fate, arrivateci dopo una ventina di minuti perché troppa leggerezza alla fine è più pesante di un pezzo degli Yes di eguale durata. parallelamente alla vostra decappottabile rossa su una lunga autostrada nichilistica.

Here's another one from Smother Magazine, www.smothermagazine.com

Review of Imperfectly Timed Words
"Rangy female vocals stir the indie pop pot a bit, blending in a dash of frenetic guitar bliss and a sprinkle or two of power-pop ballads. Often boasting haunting harmonies, The Giranimals seem to get better as you dive deeper into their “Imperfectly Timed Words”. Sweet lyrical twists with quaint pop melodies that are laudable and give pop hope again."