The Proudest Monkeys help break in a new venue for local music at Caffe Trieste.

Since releasing their debut album, the Proudest Monkeys have been playing venues in Monterey County, Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Bay Area, adding new fans to their tribe as relentlessly as they play each gig.

Now they help Monterey add a live-performance venue to the heart of downtown, at Caffe Trieste this Saturday.

After dropping Destruction of the Species, a concept album about the strained relationship between humans and nature last September, the band has penned 20 new tracks – which frontman Trevor Lucier estimates will generate three new albums.

And he’s taking a thought-provoking approach toward the band’s next release.

While Destruction depicts a world without natural resources, the band’s untitled next album envisions a world without political freedom.

Lucier doesn’t want to give away much while the album is still in development, he hints that this dystopian theme is influenced by the novels of George Orwell and Orson Welles’ hysteria-inducing War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938.

“There are coded messages within each of the songs,” he says.

One song they plan to perform at Trieste is “What I Said,” written by the band’s pianist, Mourad Shehadeh, and sung by vocalist Nick Stoeberl. Its jazz arrangement stars Shehadeh’s keys and Stoeberi’s velvet tenor.

The song unfolds like a chapter from an Orwellian story. From a cafe window, the narrator witnesses the police kill a man: “I saw a guy/ With a twinkle in his eye and a bounce in his step/ An easy target if I’m being really honest/ I wish by then I had left.”

The narrator is taken into custody from there, with Lucier singing: “Let me go/ I told you all I know/ This metal on my wrist is cold/ They take me out back/ I hear a loud crack/ Bang bang through the liver/ They drop me in the river.”

“Throw My Vote Away” keeps with the theme of corrupt leadership. “Sometimes you feel powerless in what’s supposed to be a democracy,” Lucier says of his reaction to the 2016 election.

The lyrics reflect that feeling: “Throw my vote away/ But hear what I have to say/ I’m not a crop in your field/ Or a pawn in your game/ Do you feel the fire we set to your throne/ The emperor has no clothes/ Just shred that vote up.”

“What I Said” and “Throw My Vote Away” are included on a demo recorded at Indigital Studio in Santa Cruz and will released online only.

THE PROUDEST MONKEYS 6-8:30pm Saturday, May 13. Caffe Trieste, 409 Alvarado St., Monterey. No cover. 241-6064, theproudestmonkeys.com.