In a few weeks, Durand Jones & The Indications will take the stage at San Jose Civic, with country roots singer-songwriter Theo Lawrence opening. The date lands amid the band’s ongoing celebrated Flowers Tour, supporting their fourth album, Flowers, released last summer via Dead Oceans. The record weaves the group’s now signature soul output—gospel touches with the familiarity of lowrider oldies, slight disco pulses, lush strings—into widely accessible songs of courtship and quiet longing.
The trio came together in Bloomington, Indiana, around 2012, when Durand Jones arrived at Indiana University as a recruit studying classical saxophone. When the university’s Soul Revue group was in need of a vocalist, he innocently stepped in.
Some of the most important advancements in art are happy accidents, and this appears to be no different. As writer Brandon Roos so wisely wrote in a 2019 feature on the band’s ascendant: “The origin story for modern soul heavyweights Durand Jones & the Indications emerged out of what can be considered divine timing.”…