Jiants is a three piece indie/pop band from Toronto led by the songwriting of ex-professional skateboarder Jesse Landen. Jiants performs a unique blend of nostalgic sounding low-fi indie pop songs complete with great hooks and soaring leads. The band has just finished their fourth album, Tall Tales. The record was engineered and produced by Gavin Gardiner and is set to be released late 2023.

“Real Easy” is about learning to be comfortable alone, making time to heal before you attempt to move into a new phase of yourself. Living your true self is extremely difficult and it’s something that usually takes many attempts. This song is for the first morning you wake up after deciding “your new life starts today” for the third time this week and choosing to just keep trying instead of beating yourself up about it.

Watch the official “Real Easy” music video which was shot on 16mm colour film on a farm in Caledon: 

1. Tell us the story of this song, why did you choose to visualize this song specifically? 

Real Easy is about learning to be comfortable alone. It’s for that first morning after deciding “your new life starts today” for the 3rd time this week.

I thought the song was a bit of a cruiser to listen to so it seemed like a great fit for some cool imagery. The song was written during a sort of forced period of self reflection.

2.What was the inspiration behind this video(visuals, storyline, etc.)? 

Well that would technically be a question for the director of the video Nathan Brown. But he mentioned that the storyline was meant to imitate the way a song was created for Jiants. Something I usually start alone and then pick up the band in order to bring it to life. It sort of starts like an old 1940 film but ends like a modern day music video.

3.What was the process of making this video?

We shot this video on 16mm film on a friend’s farm in Caledon Ontario. In order to keep the video within budget we had to try to shoot each scene on the first take or so in order to use the rolls of film as sparingly as possible. But it actually made the whole thing more fun. Just rehearsing the scenes a few times then only shooting them once was kind of a cool limitation compared to shooting hours of footage.