Jalen Cai

Band 2022–Present

Post-Credits

Co-founder · drummer · composer · co-producer

A band that started with a middle-school promotion performance and did not stop — thirty-odd original songs, a thirteen-track debut album called The Cyclist, and a lot of night markets in between.

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Post-Credits on stage under purple light in front of a Starry Night backdrop, two guitars held up, a bass, and the drum kit centre stage
Post-Credits on the Starry Night stage

The band

Post-Credits is the thing that has run longest and changed least. I co-founded it, play drums, write, and co-produce.

Listen

The Cyclist — thirteen tracks, released 1 December 2025.

Writing together

Post-Credits songs usually do not arrive fully formed. Someone brings in a lyric, a chord progression, a melody, a beat, or sometimes only a mood, and we keep changing it until everyone can hear the same song.

As drummer and co-producer, I tend to think about structure and momentum: when the track should open up, when it should pull back, where a fill helps, and where doing less makes the chorus hit harder.

Behind the drums

My role does not stop when the drum take is finished. I also help shape arrangements, compare takes, think about transitions and pacing, and work with the rest of the band on how a song should feel as a recording rather than only as a live performance.

Production became another form of percussion for me: controlling energy, timing, density, and space, just on a larger scale.

The numbers, briefly

Around 29,000 followers, two million likes, ten million views. Useful context, not the point. The point is thirty-plus songs that did not exist before, and one album called The Cyclist.

Add The Cyclist album artwork and a strong live-performance video

Images, posters & documents

Four members of Post-Credits in front of the night-market stage, one holding a mint guitar, the singer throwing a rock hand
The lineup at a night market

↳Milestones

  1. 11 May 2022

    The Performance That Started It: South Point Middle School

    Playing the eighth-grade promotion at South Point Middle School — the band's first performance. Kaitlyn Shuffer, Miles Nguyen, Austin To and Jalen Cai, with a set that included "You'll Be Back" from Hamilton, "Eye of the Tiger" and "Bohemian Rhapsody".

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    The band in matching black Don't Fret T-shirts posing with their instruments in front of hand-painted banners, a gong and timpani behind them
    South Point Middle School, 11 May 2022
    The five band members lined up with guitars and bass after the promotion performance
    After the first show
    • Add the rest of the set list
  2. 11 November 2022

    Our Own Mini-Concert

    The band's first self-organised show, played in Jalen's backyard.

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    Jalen grinning at the drum kit under purple stage light, a microphone in front of him and a Starry Night backdrop behind
    Behind the kit, 11 November 2022
    Jalen singing into a microphone from behind the drums, lit purple against the Starry Night backdrop
    Drums and a vocal line
    • Add the event name, if it had one
    • Add the set list and who was there
  3. Playing the Night Markets

    Multiple night market performances, grouped together here because they became a regular thing. Several of them counted as community service.

    Community performance
    Post-Credits playing on a small outdoor stage under string lights, bass, guitar and singer up front and the drum kit at the back
    Under the string lights
    An orange flyer reading Let's Rock, Post Credit Live Performance, Saturday November 25th, 5 to 9 pm, Amar Road, Walnut, Tiendaan Night Market
    The flyer for the Tiendaan Night Market set, 25 November 2023
    • Add the individual market/event names, dates and locations
    • Confirm which performances counted toward community-service hours
    • Add the organising groups where relevant
  4. 26 September 2023

    Playing the Moon Festival for Local Seniors

    A Moon Festival performance for elderly attendees in the local community.

    Community performance
    Jalen at the drum kit in a white T-shirt, a red Mid-Autumn banquet banner in Chinese characters behind him
    Behind the kit at the Mid-Autumn banquet
    Five band members posing on a blue-lit stage with guitars and a microphone
    The band on stage
    • Add the organising group
    • Add the venue/community
    • Confirm whether service hours were recorded
  5. Writing 30+ Songs Together

    Thirty-plus originals written as a group, which mostly means thirty-plus rounds of changing something until everyone can hear the same song.

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  6. 1 December 2025

    Making Our First Album: The Cyclist

    A thirteen-song debut album, released 1 December 2025.

    Release
  7. Behind the Drums: Producing Post-Credits

    Shaping arrangements, comparing takes, thinking about transitions and pacing — the part nobody sees.

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