Jiants is a three piece indie/pop band from Toronto lead by the songwriting of ex-professional skateboarder Jesse Landen. Jiants performs a unique blend of nostalgic sounding lo-fi indie pop songs complete with great hooks and soaring leads. Once hailed by Paste Magazine as “a band to watch,” they have just finished their fourth album, Tall Tales, and it’s their best effort yet. The record was engineered and produced by Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky) at All-Day Coconut Studios and is set to be released November 10th, 2023.

Their latest single, “Moon Lit,” is a dreamy yet driving track. Jesse explains:
“Moon Lit” is about walking up to the fact that you might just be chasing the nostalgia of imaginary summer love. It’s about catching yourself dreaming of lustful, humid, summer nights that keep you in a perpetual loop of hypothetical excitement for the unknowns just around the bend. But this time something feels different. There’s a slow unraveling reality that these kinds of nights are now filling you with emptiness and maybe don’t serve you as well as they used to.

1. Tell us the story of this song, why did you choose to visualize this song specifically?
The story behind this song is basically just chasing some kind of imaginary nostalgia of summer love. It was written about a series of events while dating over last summer. We pick it as a song to make a live video for because we thought it consistently sounded good when we played it as three. We asked Julie Title to sing her back ups from the studio recording and I think it added a lot.

2. What was the inspiration behind this video(visuals, storyline, etc.)?
The location of the video was a wood shop/record label called Tibet Street records.in Toronto.  I had previously seen a live show at this location and thought the room had a great feel for a video.

3. What was the process of making this video?
It’s a little tough making a good sounding live performance video and to be honest it was a little risky to sing with no real monitor or head phones to hear yourself.  But with the help of Andrew Collins and Mitch Fillion helping with the video and  having everything mixed at All day coconut studios by Gavin Gardiner I think it all worked out pretty well for the budget we had.