Upcoming Events at Cafe Du Nord
Sun May 26, 7:00 PM - Mon May 27, 2:30 AM
2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
Community: Mission District
Description
This show is 18+ The Jungle Giants Listen to The Jungle Giants third studio album Quiet Ferocity and one thing becomes clear: they’ve found their sound.
Event Details
The band – featuring Sam Hales on vocals/guitar, Cesira Aitken on lead guitar, Andrew Dooris on Bass Guitar/Backing Vocals and Keelan Bijker on drums/trombone – met in Brisbane at Mansfield State High, and since their first performance in 2011, they’ve released two EPs (The Jungle Giants, 2011 and She’s a Riot, 2012) and two studio albums (Learn to Exist, 2013 and Speakerzoid, 2015).
Quiet Ferocity combines the signature melodic arrangements of their first album with the percussion-laden production of their second and catapults them into a sonic stratosphere that is entirely their own sound.
‘After Speakerzoid I didn’t write for a while,’ Sam says. ‘I needed to figure out what I wanted to do. I had to get out of my head. Then one day I was in the pool. It came to me, and I made this conscious decision. I told the band I wanted to make banging indie rock. I wanted to make a strong record that I would be happy to play live.
But it wasn’t always that easy. Before Speakerzoid, Sam was having trouble writing. He went to Paris on a writing trip, but instead of writing he just spoke to himself out loud. He asked himself what he was doing and because he couldn’t write he began to read. He read a piece on creativity by Ernest Hemmingway and felt like the piece was talking to him. ‘I learned so much on that trip I couldn’t process it all,’ Sam says. ‘Then after Speakerzoid came out I remembered the essay and the notes I’d written. And I knew what I had to do.’ Sam worked five days a week, 9-5, and if something wasn’t working, he moved onto the next song. ‘This was really important,’ Sam says. ‘When I clocked off each day I gave myself permission to stop thinking. It let the album breathe.’
Quiet Ferocity brims with triumph, enthusiasm and, at times, pain. Recorded and produced entirely themselves, its strength lies in the amalgamation of its members, who have been making music together for so long they feel like family.
One of the main sonic identifiers on the album, On Your Way Down showcases the band’s ability to combine simple arrangements with melodic intensity
Quiet Ferocity combines the signature melodic arrangements of their first album with the percussion-laden production of their second and catapults them into a sonic stratosphere that is entirely their own sound.
‘After Speakerzoid I didn’t write for a while,’ Sam says. ‘I needed to figure out what I wanted to do. I had to get out of my head. Then one day I was in the pool. It came to me, and I made this conscious decision. I told the band I wanted to make banging indie rock. I wanted to make a strong record that I would be happy to play live.
But it wasn’t always that easy. Before Speakerzoid, Sam was having trouble writing. He went to Paris on a writing trip, but instead of writing he just spoke to himself out loud. He asked himself what he was doing and because he couldn’t write he began to read. He read a piece on creativity by Ernest Hemmingway and felt like the piece was talking to him. ‘I learned so much on that trip I couldn’t process it all,’ Sam says. ‘Then after Speakerzoid came out I remembered the essay and the notes I’d written. And I knew what I had to do.’ Sam worked five days a week, 9-5, and if something wasn’t working, he moved onto the next song. ‘This was really important,’ Sam says. ‘When I clocked off each day I gave myself permission to stop thinking. It let the album breathe.’
Quiet Ferocity brims with triumph, enthusiasm and, at times, pain. Recorded and produced entirely themselves, its strength lies in the amalgamation of its members, who have been making music together for so long they feel like family.
One of the main sonic identifiers on the album, On Your Way Down showcases the band’s ability to combine simple arrangements with melodic intensity
