If you’ve never been on tour, the new video from Brooklyn quintet, The Jaguar Club, might offer some insight into the vibrant, audacious, and, at times, exhausting intricacies of time spent on the road with your best friends, playing music every night. The visuals for their song, "The Last of the Night," a new single following last year’s debut album CLOSE, were shot, and, consequentially directed by the band, on tour in July and August of this year, including England, a few festivals, and full slew of US dates in support of Idlewild. Shots alternate in schizophrenic juggling fashion between hotel rooms and lobbies, parking lots, gorgeous city shots, bridges and roads, and breathtaking beachscapes, with tons of footage of the band in their various car rentals thrown in between. Aside from appearing like an absolute blast, the video depicts five friends who know each other better than most, travel together, spend countless hours together, and still manage to play energetically the music that they love, every night, thus speaking volumes for the binding power of life on tour, both for camaraderie, and musicianship.
The track itself is a lush ballad of catchy hooks and driving, shakeable rhythms, with enough synth fills and vocal reverb to instill that inspirational mysticism mirrored in the Kerouac romance of the road. Included in the visuals are plenty of shots of hometown favorite spot, The Knitting Factory, where The Jaguar Club will be headlining a pretty stacked bill on December 15th. Playing alongside them will be Dead Leaf Echo, Dinowalrus, and Decorum. It should be a fine time! -JP Basileo