Death Wish

On Your Own

Subhumans - No

Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings

What More Can I Say

Dry as a Bone/Rehab Doll

Swallow My Pride

In a big blue house on the eastside of Vancouver, the Jins were born. Now, whether you consider the birth date of a band their first show, or the day they decided on their path, it doesn’t matter, because it all happened in that blue house. 2014’s Hallowe’en show was a tentpole for that early sound, and if you don’t know Vancouver, shows almost never happen in houses there. The city breathes a heavy lung full of NIMBY behaviour, so kicking off their journey by cold-rocking the neighbourhood is the way to become the stuff of legends. “I settled on The Jins as a name because of all the pigeons I saw around Vancouver,” states lively frontman Ben Larsen, reminiscing about those early days. “I always thought that pigeons were a great metaphor for the way I lived at the time, like sleeping in random places and eating garbage and just generally not respected by anyone, but still a part of the urban landscape, just hanging around everywhere, dwellers of the seedy underbelly of society rejected by the general public but ubiquitous in the city. Pigeons are also really misunderstood creatures and don't really deserve how they're viewed, They're monogamous and seem to have a sense of caring for their loved ones and I think there’s a really strong sentiment to that, I've always been a sucker for love songs so that's how I came about the name.”

Perhaps if Vancouver’s closest city wasn’t a harrowing seventeen hour drive through the Rocky Mountains, and the powers that run the borders to the south didn’t stop music from being shared and toured freely throughout Cascadia, the British Columbia city would be like everywhere else: up to her underboob in bands doing their best cosplay of the 90s. However, The Jins are a wonderful product of managing to create something fantastic out of an tough situation. They come from a city where only the plucky survive, and their output, whether it’s the upcoming release, or being one of the most beloved seven inches released on Kingfisher Bluez, is melted down, purest Vancouver. They are resilient, they are beautiful, they are melancholic, and they are unique. Compare them to their contemporaries all you wish, but just know that The Jins are their city’s heroes of jangle and fuzz, and will be coming to yours soon.

26/04/2019

She Said

This album is a compilation of the 2017 Destructo Disk EP, "Punk Rock for Kids Who Can't Skate," remastered to fix some of the kinks from the original release, as well as (most of) our splits with X-ray Cat, Les Baisures, and Baxter. It also features 3 new recordings that we hadn't released until this point; "Death Pact," "Keef America Gr8," and a re-do of "Glenda."

This album was released on Spotify and Apple Music a couple months before we uploaded it to bandcamp.
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released December 29, 2018

Tracks 1-5 Engineered by Danny Halpren at Kind Lion Sound
Every other track Engineered by Levi Miller at Front & Center Recordings
This album is not mastered but waddya gonna do

Track 4 Originally Written by Splenora, we have nothing to do with it.

Country Club Girl

Aberdeen is Dead

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