Giraffe Tongue Orchestra recruit Juliette Lewis

Giraffe Tongue Orchestra member (and The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist) Ben Weinman has offered details regarding the "supergroup".

Featuring past and current members of Mastodon, Dethklok and The Mars Volta, the outfit has reportedly recruited Juliette Lewis for vocal duties.

The band has been working on new music early in 2015.

Speaking with SiriusXM’s Jose Mangin, Weinman observed the developments.

"Well actually, there have been some personnel changes throughout the years, it’s something we’ve been working on for a long time and interestingly enough we finished all the music and we’re finalizing all the vocals now, Juliette Lewis is singing on the project right now along with some other guest people.

"...Me and her have become pretty close friends and she’s amazing, obviously I’m a huge fan of her work as an actress and many years ago I saw her band Juliette and the Licks play and like most people I was pretty skeptical. I’m like, “Oh another actress or actor that has a band, like vanity project blah, blah, blah.” So I went into the show and I basically saw somebody that gave 110%. By the end of the show she was drenched in sweat, she was throwing herself into the crowd, and when I thought about it I saw this person putting all her energy and spirit into this music, I thought this was almost more real that most bands because she doesn’t need this," the musician states as transcribed by Revolver.

*Main photo credit: Sara Jones.