Group Project is a Montreal-based alt-pop trio made up of Jacob Brown, Jeremy Harbec, and Alex Remington. Known for blending elements of folk, funk, rock, and electronic music, their songwriting combines sharp hooks with personal, relatable themes that connect quickly with listeners. After releasing their first album happily catastrophic in 2022, they followed up with Here Now in May 2025. Their latest single, “Juliette,” a collaboration with The Astronomers, came out in July. The band has played major festivals including Osheaga, FEQ, and Ottawa BluesFest, and returned to the Osheaga stage this summer.
What’s your favorite part of the songwriting process?
Bringing a song to life for the first time together as a band, usually at our “song camp” studio sessions whereby we rent a cottage outside of Montreal and set up our gear for recording all weekend long. We escape the city and our everyday lives to immerse ourselves into our music. It’s always a release for us. We jam and have fun until something sparks and then we get to writing and recording that new song.
What’s your biggest session highlight so far?
Recording with the same piano that was lit on fire for an Arcade Fire music video.
How much do current market and track trends impact your creative process?
I’d say that current market / track trends influence our creative process in a lot of ways but always indirectly. We are all fairly in tune with popular music and our song styles often align with current popular music. For example, our old stuff used to be comparable to The Chainsmokers, whereas now our more recent music is somewhat comparable to Noah Kahan. However, we always tend to maintain a very unique sound that is still distinguishable enough from sounding like a carbon copy of pop music. Our distinguishable sound comes from each band member’s differing taste in music. Jacob has always been pop/folk, Alex has always been more rock oriented while Jeremy brings a taste of EDM/country. We once asked our distribution company about how we could push to get on more playlists… they responded saying that playlist pushes are sometimes challenging for us because ‘we’re not pop enough to be pop, we’re not rock enough to be rock, we’re not folk enough to be folk, and we’re not alternative enough to be considered alternative’. We found this very encouraging because it reminded us that we are doing something unique / special.
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