Some garage band kids move on and live life like normal, but others are implanted with a deeply-rooted passion for music that can’t be ignored, even when they grow up.

Four Des Moines men openly suffer from this ailment.

“We’re all adults now, with adult lives — but we have to keep making music. It’s a part of who we are,” Joe McGuire says.

McGuire is the drummer for pop-rock quartet Invisible North. The Des Moines band formed about 9 months ago and started out without much direction, just four guys out to make music.

“My brother turned me onto this book called ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’,” Andy Trullinger, guitarist and vocalist for the band says.

“The passage I was reading at the time was describing an expedition that was kind of going wrong. The guys were freaking out and turning to their leader, and he kept telling them to keep their eyes to the invisible north,” Trullinger says. “It just kind of summed up the feeling of this band.”

Trullinger says he and his brother, Keith Trullinger, also on guitars and vocals, are fortunate to have been “raised in a musical family.”

“Andy and his brother have been rocking for years and years, and the bass player and I were in another band for years and years,” McGuire says. “Our singer had triplets, so we jumped on board with Andy and Keith about 9 months ago.”

“What makes this band different from others that I’ve been in is that we’ve got the singing brothers, and they just sound good together, kind of like Oasis,” McGuire says.

Invisible North has been playing as much as the members schedules allow. It has fairly regular shows in Des Moines, and Saturday’s show at Bali Satay will be one of the first times it has brought its music to Ames.

“We’ve all played in Ames before in bands that we have been in prior to Invisible North, but we haven’t really played much up there since we started this group,” McGuire says.

McGuire also says there is a different vision and set of goals behind Invisible North when compared to other bands he’s been in.

“Band battles are great, but we kind of steer clear of that,” he says. “I don’t know that artists should be battling. It’s great for younger artists you know, to challenge their skills and what not, but we’re not really into that. Our biggest accomplishment is running a band even though we’re adults with lives.”

“We get a lot of satisfaction out of the music that we make,” says Trullinger, who also writes a majority of the songs for the group.

He says he does not hurry through his song writing process.

“Typically I hear melodies first; songs are driven by my melodies. I work on pianos during the day and I’ll work out the melody on the piano,” Trullinger says.

“I usually transfer a melody to guitar later. Sometimes the melody comes a long time before lyrics, sometimes we write split sets of lyrics and experiment with different ideas.”

Trullinger says the band has recently been devoting a lot of time to writing songs because later this summer it will be recording their first full-length album at the Sound Farm in Jamaica, Iowa.

“We’re really working hard trying to make an album that we are proud of,” he says.

Invisible North hopes to be welcomed by the local music supporters of Ames.

“We’re down for the cause; we’re guys that are doing it for peanuts — for the love of the game — so if you’re into the local scene, come check us out,” McGuire says.