#THISISDIY Discovery: The Bands

The first part of DIY’s Discovery feature looked at the people behind the scenes capable of making things happen. From traditionally sought-after tastemakers to more unlikely influencers, we spoke to bloggers, right up to the figures behind soundtracks on online games.

It seems strange to acknowledge in an age of ‘next big things’’s, but the very idea of a buzz band is strained in 2014. DIY cover stars JUNGLE might be one of very few examples to latch onto this tag. They’re an act everyone wants to see. They’ve maintained mystique while still managing to launch themselves onto the stage. They have everything - the songs, the intrigue, the sense that more’s to come. They’re new, and there’s a story: from the outside it looks to be the work of masterminds. Out of the online world, JUNGLE have held onto their ‘buzz’ because their story is one of a couple of guys delivering something completely new. This is why they’re on the cover of DIY, standing out as the most exciting act around today.

In the second part of Discovery, we speak to the bands who’ve been picked up - either from the beginning, or midway through their career - and pushed into the spotlight. It’s more established acts who’ve crept under the spotlight in recent years. Whether it’s a big back-catalogue on Bandcamp or just one, career-defining televised spot on Letterman (over to you, Future Islands), the idea that we’re a generation of shuffle-addicts with no desire to discover bands properly seems completely redundant. That can only be a good thing.

Read the full Discovery feature in the latest issue of DIY.