Moths

Drown The World With Me was originally released on the Mutually Assured Destruction EP and is the first public song from the new album Moths. 

Fun fact: this is the first Kinjac song to ever have an actual guitar in it. 

Lyrics:

esoterrorism wisdom mysticism
slippin’ through the doors
of my mind’s corridors
sends me reeling on the floor
I’ve had enough I’m out of touch
whispered voices in a hushed tone
drone on and on and on

I don’t condone 
the broken pieces of me 
that steer me clearly 
towards the nearly future 
that I see
end of a culture built on greed
end of you and me
end of all we see
so now you see

I’ve got a problem 
and I’m not the only one
I’ll be your remedy if you 
drown the world with me

Drown The World With Me

Kinjac Remix of Hardcore by Thavius Beck from his release Dialogue on Mush Records.

Thavius Beck is a Los Angeles based electronic musician and producer, certified Ableton trainer, and an instructor at the world renowned DJ and Production school Dubspot in NYC.

He has released three solo albums (Decomposition, Thru, and Dialogue) on Mush Records. In 2007, he contributed a remix of "Survivalism" for Nine Inch Nails, as well as producing several tracks for Saul Williams on his Trent Reznor produced album "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!" In 2008, Thavius Beck produced the album Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow for fellow Mush Records rapper K-the-I???. In 2012 he released The Most Beautiful Ugly on Plug Research and has been touring as the DJ for rapper Skylar Grey.

I had the pleasure of meeting Thavius and playing a some shows with him and K-the-I??? a few years back and always loved the lyrics from Hardcore. I asked him for the vocal track to remix, and we dug what I came up with and decided to release it.

Hardcore (Kinjac Remix) [feat. Thavius Beck]

Blue Lights from the new album Moths.  

Lyrics:

see the blue lights in the rearview
hear the sirens come to get you
pull you over to the side
steal your rights and your mind
stack the bodies with the profits
bank accounts and golden coffins
you see the fascists on the tv
but you simply stare at the screen

no escape
living in a police state
feel the weight
until your dying day

but we all feel good when we’re feeling good
yes we all feel good when we’re feeling good
hardly a worry and hardly a care
cause we all feel good when we’re feeling good
yes we all feel good when we’re feeling good
so dance the night away
just dance the night away

see the blue lights in the rearview
hear the sirens come to get you
pull you over to the side
steal your rights and your mind
stack the bodies with the profits
bank accounts and golden coffins
you see the fascists on the tv
but you simply stare at the screen

broken heart in a broken man
broken down by the man 
dressed in blue he comes for you 
it’s nothing new just history repeating 

no escape
living in a police state
feel the weight
until your dying day

but we all feel good when we’re feeling good
yes we all feel good when we’re feeling good
hardly a worry and hardly a care
cause we all feel good when we’re feeling good
yes we all feel good when we’re feeling good
so dance the night away
just dance the night away

Blue Lights

Facsimile from the new Kinjac album Moths. 

Lyrics:

I want a quiet life drinking tea
mulling over how easily
you forgot me
I want a simple life in peace
being lonely so happily
left to be
 
but you don’t see it that way
so just dig me an early grave
I was putting words in your mouth
I was making you who I wanted to see
I was diluted uprooted confused 
and fooled into believing your facsimile 

all I wanted was to build a home
love you dearly and not be alone
but you don’t love me
now I spend all my nights at home
missing you and drinking alone 
hoping you miss me

but you don’t see it that way
so just dig me weaan early grave
I was putting words in your mouth
I was making you who I wanted to see
I was diluted uprooted confused 
and fooled into believing your facsimile 

Facsimile

This Time from the new Kinjac album Moths. 

Lyrics:

tell me something I do not know
kick me down so I can grow
show me something that feels like snow 
and lets the red against it glow

I am calling out
I am falling out of line
it's time to send me back
heart attack or aneurysm
same light different prism
all ways to free me of this prison
walls up falls up 
into the self-made trap again
I have not made myself a better man
I have pondered the ways 
I have squandered this time

This Time

This track was originally released on a compilation to support Wikileaks my friend and fellow musician CJ Boyd put together called "Like Badgers and Birds" (the title was taken from a Julian Assange quotation). It's a revolving mixtape, so check it out: http://obsoletemediaobjects.bandcamp.com/album/like-badgers-and-birds-a-compilation-to-support-wikileaks

Lyrics:

like badgers and birds 
you’re free
to spread your words
to speak clearly
cause it don’t mean a thing
no, no it don’t mean a thing
if the cash machine don’t ring

you can stand on the streets 
and shout it out real loud
you can speak the truth
in front of any crowd
but it don’t mean a thing
no, no it don’t mean a thing
if the cash machine don’t ring

they’ll come for you if you get an inkling
they’ll come for you if you get to thinking
they’ll come for you in the middle of the night
to put out the flame that shed light on their lies

Cash Machine

This is a remake of the song Only from the album Incandescent. I changed the lyrics to make it past tense to turn a love song into a tale of heartbreak. That's how I roll. 

Lyrics:

you’re the only one for me
I see that clearly when you’re near me
so why’d you have to steer me away?

you’ve got the one and only
disposition that I miss and only
you can see through me when I only
halfheartedly exist
I only halfheartedly exist

a kiss on my cheek
made me weak
and question everything
the theoretical seemed so vain
when you made me feel so sane
it’s driving me insane
the subtle words
that turned my world upside down
you had me spinning round
tumble down into oblivion
just to see you again
I’d leave my world behind
to exist only in your eyes

I’d leave my world behind
but that’s not what you had on your mind

Only Halfheartedly

I pulled the lyrics to this one from an old Kinjac song called Terror from the album Seven Years Bad Luck. I wrote it in 2008 and it's unfortunately still very relevant. 

Lyrics:

we've caught the bug 
we're eaten up 
wrapped up in your 
blanket names for 
all those things that 
go bump in the night 

we're terrified 
we're terrified 
we're terrified of ourselves 
won't you save us from us? 
oh, won't you save us from us?

Terrified

Eprhyme is an NYC based Jewish hip-hop artist whose second album Dopestylevsky came out on K records and was the first hip-hop album put out by K in over a decade. 

I had the pleasure of playing a show with Eprhyme in 2009 and doing some production work for him and his side project Darshan shortly after. I really liked the lyrics to the intro track from his album Dopestylevsky, but wanted to hear what it would sound like over some heavy beats instead of the orchestral score on the album, so I asked him if I could remix it. The result is a very different song, but worked really well. Enjoy. 

Grind Thoroughly (Kinjac Remix) [feat. Eprhyme]

Here's an emotionally vulnerable electro-hop track to confuse y'all. This is the second track on the Moths album and has always been very near and dear to me.  

Lyrics:

there’s no way to erase
the memory of her face
she’ll always be in that place
you bury deep deep down

we carry scars  with us
we wear our hearts on our sleeves
the lingerings of love 
tear at us like a disease
you can’t forget 
what’s been etched in
you can’t forget 
until the end

tell me 
what you want me to see
what you want me to be
how to breathe in your skin
when you exhale your sin
through each one of your pores
if you’re bored now
I’ll show you how you mesmerize 
with your eyes
green like the envy I feel
I want to steal you away from yourself
a wealth of indecision 

your incisions cut into my scar tissue
bleeding issues I thought I had long ago left behind

synaptic misfiring
the wiring is scarred
she caught me off guard
she stopped me hard in my tracks
a lax kind of affection
I was begging for attention
but she she she couldn’t be
bothered with me

Scars

The title track to the album. The lyrics are important to the Kinjac cosmology and are a continuation of the themes presented in the last album Incandescent (directly responding to that album's final and title track). 

The sampled voices are some recordings I made of the announcements on an overnight ferry across the Baltic Sea between Stockholm, Sweden and Riga, Latvia. 

Lyrics:

moths seeking incandescent
all we’re left with is fluorescent 
so we suck the light from others
mothers, fathers, sons and daughters
filled the void with solenoids
flashing screens we can’t avoid
sink our souls till they’re destroyed
cold, extinguished, burnt, devoid

I walk this lonely town at night
offering my good advice 
to the ghosts of those left behind
from fights for gods or dollar signs
it’s all the same
can’t fool me with a different name
my name is meaningless
but you can call me 
the last step that we all missed
philosopher who’s drunk as piss
standing at the edge of an abyss
the space inside
the empty recess of the mind
the place that we all left behind
then return to try and find
what we left behind is this
nothing here for us to miss

moths seeking incandescent
all we’re left with is fluorescent 
so we suck the light from others
mothers, fathers, sons and daughters 
filled the void with solenoids
flashing screens we can’t avoid
sink our souls till they’re destroyed
cold extinguished burnt devoid

southern gothic anti-pop for sad citizens of the dystopia. solo project of music producer MG O'Shea.