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Halik Ni Gringo are always at their finest when they test the limits of classic goof-rock template with a healthy balance of adult silliness and exaggerated drama. It’s impossible not to crack up and lose it when you hear this bunch of oddballs deface cultural pretensions and machismo while enjoying every bit of the act. They’re sadomasochists, circus jugglers, sex therapists, comic book crusaders, Judd Apatow fellows— you name it. All in the spirit of fun, they thrive and bring on the rock n’ roll fag.

On their new single “NASA, I Have A Problem”, they take on the role of space troubadours spinning tales of sci-fi romance through a superfluous mesh of progressive rock, post-punk, and glam. It’s a refreshingly undemanding listen, a more introspective diversion from the stoner humor that boxed them into the more sophisticated brew of GIniling Festival and Tenacious D. Still, this tendency towards sentimental earnestness proves that while they may be funnier than ever, it’s worth every risk to hear Halik Ni Gringo churn out a different flavor once in a while. 


Halik Ni Gringo - NASA, I Have A Problem

DOOM!!!!!!!!! SQUAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!! BY THE BUILDINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RECORDED AT KEAN'S PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To be on our upcoming EP, early 2015!

You were packing up your socks
With the jackets to match
And every little thread in tow
But you tore out every bow
And every sleeve in every hole
Leaving me with nothing but gold

And that was the last time I saw you

I used to be proud of you
But I don't think I can do it anymore

Someone's packing up our tables
And they tread down our halls
While you're sipping tambourines
From masculine walls
Would you rather take the exit
The entrance or what's between?

Or would you rather watch TV
While teenage riots run along the streets
Pretending that they're you and me

And that was the last time I saw you
(THAT WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU)
Gazing down at your shoes
(GAZING DOWN AT YOUR SHOES HAHA)

I used to be proud of you
I used to be PROUUUUUUUD OF YOUUUUUUUUUUU
But I don't think that I can do it anymore

The Doom Squad (Demo)

Up Dharma Down - All The Good Things

@iamkajo(Los Angeles)
http://iamkajo.com/

mixed and mastered by John Pope (@johnpxpe)
album art by Jorel Lising


Marco Polo (feat. Kajo)

New Hannah+Gabi track. From the upcoming album "Years Gone."

Sucks to be Away

wanted to give the single/radio mix i did pre-album out just because. free downloads at https://bpvalenzuela.bandcamp.com/track/steady :)

mopey af music video by the wonderful petersen vargas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsSuXCxLA7o

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i'm not a book to be read 
it may look nice in your head 
but is it ever really more than that? 

more than circumstance, 
is it just loneliness 
or what did you expect? 
but it's still different 
beyond the second hand 
thought i was over that 

if it's really me you seek 
then i won't hide 
i've been exhausting every single way 
to get it off my mind 
get it off my mind 
but if it's really me you seek 
then i won't hide 
wishing it could be simple as you explain 
but i can't ever seem to get it right 

i have the tendency to pick things apart 
and i can never breathe 
am i wrong expecting it to be easy when you're next to me? 
and i don't want to be the kind to second guess 
it's just so hard to believe 
or difficult to reconcile what's on my mind 
with how i feel 

if it's really me you seek 
then i won't hide 
i've been exhausting every single way 
to get it off my mind 
get it off my mind 
but if it's really me you seek 
then i won't hide 
wishing it could be simple as you explain 
but i can't ever seem to get it right 

if it's really me you seek 
if it's really me you seek 
if it's really me you seek 
if it's really me you seek

steady (radio + single version)

BUY GEOGRAPHY LESSONS NOW ON:

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ph/album/geography-lessons-ep/id1050472810
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/0OSZwZGyLCT5Pysf4vkg33
Bandcamp: http://ourselvestheelves.bandcamp.com/album/geography-lessons

For physical copies of the EP/DVD, email us at:
ourselvestheelves@gmail.com

Longing For

Watch the music video here!
http://youtu.be/reZx62QLdk8

This song is NOT about you

Tracklist:

01 - Scoliosis Backbrace
02 - Corpse Medicine
03 - Double Tuck
04 - Velvet Thunder

Lyrics:

Scoliosis Backbrace

Life swallowed enough of these years to match the angle of my spine. Ill-spoken, but lest we forget, I’m half-bent and close to caving in.

“You are worthless. You are scum,” you said.

Why do I still wake up?



Corpse Medicine

Outside/other/apart, you draw yourself in a silence that traces weariness on the outlines of your tired face; in the absence of speech and wills that soon break.

Wounds once stitched in light and shadow open up to spell your shame in blood and marrow; at once outside, othered, and parting as spirits do from their lingering corpses.

You will soon settle in the ache of injuries that cease to convalesce; abandoning all warmth, all care, and comfort. This is your life and you’re worse than dead to me. Don’t pretend this is alright.

I'm left outside, othered, and apart.



Double Tuck

"Each time I call to you, seasons echo back in full; names written in trails, and returning as loving truths."



Velvet Thunder

Breathing hums seismic beneath the surrogate cradle and its familiar tongues unravel in the yearning of the north. Culled from the ends of unlived futures, they shattered to birth clouds

Articulate, if subvocal, avalanches trail on hushed. Prismatic veils enshrined love’s immediate brokenness as we devolved into vestiges once vital, now merely mourned.

Lust in the confusion of you, all words become vapor.

BEAST JESUS - IN VARIOUS STATES OF DISASSEMBLY (FULL EP STREAM)

Up Dharma Down - Indak

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