SURREY, BC, CANADA — JBNG — the musical project of Surrey-born multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter Jaben John Groome — announces the release of his new single, “Many Moons.” Recorded and mixed at Echoplant Studio in Coquitlam, BC and produced by David Ziehr, it is a raw, heavily melodic sonic experiment that defies typical songwriting approaches and leans into something more visceral — a song about a love that does not end so much as it transforms, cycling through loss and renewal in time with the earth’s own astronomical rhythms.
“Music is my medicine,” says Groome. For JBNG, that is not a slogan. It is the only honest description of what this music has always been.
“Many Moons” was written about an undying love — one that survives the full arc of life’s ups and downs, moving in parallel with the cycles of the earth itself. The title draws from a saying common in the 1950s, one that Groome’s father used to sing, and which appears in the song’s video as a thread connecting generations, loss, and the strange continuity that runs beneath both.
Groome describes its deeper philosophy with characteristic directness: “We grow with each astronomical cycle and we learn with every loss. Radical acceptance when things end — as nothing ever really dies. It just becomes its true cell form again and evolves into whatever it needs to be each time.”
The songs that make up JBNG‘s catalogue are inspired by the great love of Groome’s life and the eventual tragedy that ended their twenty-three years together. “Many Moons” carries that weight while refusing to be consumed by it — raw and melodic in equal measure, reaching for something that sits beyond grief, toward the kind of acceptance that is not resignation but transformation.
JBNG has been on a relentless creative streak — releasing music monthly, earning critical recognition, and building a growing fanbase drawn to the combination of personal vulnerability and grunge-rooted power that defines everything Groome makes. His influences run from the Beatles, Buddy Holly, and Elvis through to the giants of the grunge movement — Nirvana, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth — and forward into contemporaries like Ty Segall, Screaming Trees, and Thee Oh Sees. He carries the torch while breaking new ground.
“Many Moons” follows a string of acclaimed releases across four albums — Meh (recorded 2015, released April 2024, produced by Matt DiPomponio), Sub (2023, bass and vocals only, produced by Tom Berttall at 5ft Under Studios), Run and Run Unplugged (2024, produced by David Ziehr), and Run Live at the Biltmore (2024, produced by Henri Brown). Singles including “Muddy Bangs,” “Fearabaloo,” “Barely Know You,” and “So Nice” have all found warm critical and audience reception.
Through it all, JBNG has stood for something beyond the music itself — a message of resilience, mental health advocacy, and the against-all-odds psychology of someone who has been through the fire and kept playing.
“I’ve come from a lifetime of leaning into music for support during hard times,” Groome says, “from an early age — Beatles, Buddy Holly, Elvis — until my childhood flooded with grunge. Songs are inspired by the true love of my life and the eventual tragedy that ended our 23 years together.”
