Lyrics & music by Brian Kious 

A very meaningful song for me. It’s a major event when someone of very limited means can scrape up enough to travel overseas. When I got the opportunity to spend some time in England I took it. I stayed with a very kind hostess in Lichfield, in the Midlands. Whenever we set out for London or Liverpool we always switched trains at the Birmingham New Street station. This place was what I think of now when I think back to the few weeks of my life I spent on the other side of the world.

Brian - vocal, guitars
Nick - bass guitar, harmony vocal
Nil - percussion

Birmingham New Street

Written by Nil DeSilva, Brian Kious, Nick Kladky

Technically two seperate tunes, but pasted together by LaMarcus' ARP synth. It was a case where the band were feeling ambitious and wanted to track something to rival early Pink Floyd psychedelia. Sure, it started there, but it wound up being something else altogether. Part 1: The Shadow features Nil and Nick grooving together and being joined by Brian on mandolin which then goes chaotic as the tune progresses to its' initial conclusion. Brian switches over to electric guitar for the second part, "The Echo”  purely improvised and this time... 80% live.

(Recitation from 大禹謨）

禹曰：惠迪吉，從逆凶，惟影響。


Nil - drums
Nick - bass guitar
Brian - vocals, mandolin, guitars
Magnum Carter - harmonica, ambient sounds
LaMarcus Drysdale - synthesizers

The Shadow & The Echo

Lyrics by Brian Kious
Music by Brian Kious, Nick Kladky, Casey Wollberg

Brian - lead vocal, guitars
Nick - bass guitar
Casey - harmony vocals 

LaMarcus Drysdale - synthesizers 
葉器人 - drums

You have grown softer
You should have been wiser
Never take an offer
Never take it off her

Brace yourself for impact 
You know she’s got a stinger 
No one cares about fact
No one cares that you’re a singer

I know your mind is twisted
When you’re standing at attention 
Focus on the color
Was never your intention 
We know your limp is wristed 
With 10 exploring fingers
In a sea of boiling water 
Pray the story doesn’t linger 

Keep yourself together 
Nobody should notice
Talk about the weather 
Fly a flag of progress

I know your mind is twisted
When you’re standing at attention 
Focus on the color
Was never your intention 
We know your limp is wristed 
With 10 exploring fingers
In a sea of boiling water 
Pray the story doesn’t linger 

Never take it off her
Even if she offers
You should have been wiser
You have grown softer

I know your mind is twisted
When you’re standing at attention 
Focus on the color
Was never your intention 
We know your limp is wristed 
With 10 exploring fingers
In a sea of boiling water 
Pray the story doesn’t linger
And if that little bird don't 
Sing like it's supposed to
No one's gonna buy you 
Another way to tell the truth

Another Way To Tell The Truth

A subtle pressure cooker of a song detailing deception and the excusing of bad behavior. Recorded live at Hayley’s Music in Wichita Falls, TX.

The Curvature Of Your Bones

Written by Brian Kious & Casey Wollberg

Recorded live at Hayley’s Music in Wichita Falls, Texas as part of the store’s Youtube channel showcase.

Brian - vocal, guitar
Casey - vocal

Venus

Nobody’s Fate (Campfire Mix)

Written by Brian Kious & Casey Wollberg

Brian - vocal, guitar
Nick - bass guitar
Casey - vocal

Tooth & Claw (Campfire Mix)

Written by Nick Kladky

Nick - vocal
Brian - backing vocal, guitar
Casey - backing and harmony vocal

Understand (Campfire mix)

Moments Flat (Campfire Mix)

Encore (Campfire mix)

An acoustic mix of the new single.

Brian - lead vocal, guitar
Nick - bass guitar
Casey - harmony vocal

Another Way To Tell The Truth (Campfire mix)

Written by Brian Kious

Brian - vocal, guitar, harmonica
Nick - vocal, accordion 
Casey - vocal

I’m Not Asking

All vocals and instruments sung and played by Brian.

My first foray into any kind of faith-based songwriting.
The goal was to make it appeal to the non-faithful and not be too “on the nose.” I think I succeeded.

Written by Brian Kious

Maybe you’ll see nothing
Maybe you’ll see flames
Maybe you’ll say something
Or scream away in pain

I’ve been my love
I’ve been my doubts
I’ve seen the city up in the clouds
I’ve given time
Of which I have none
I’ve tamed the beast on top of the sun

Maybe you’ll be sinner
Maybe you’ll be Saint
Maybe you’ll find something
Hidden in the paint

Fall on your knees
Spring in your step
Summer your body
Wintered to rest
I bring my last high
The most you can earn
The pennies you saved
The years that you burned

Maybe you’ll remember
Maybe you’ll regret
Maybe you’ll see coming
What you should forget

[instrumental break]

I rise from the ground
To bring you good news
How you receive it
Is for you to choose
Be kind to your brothers
Take care of your girls
Forget possessions
Carry the world

Maybe the sun rises
Maybe skies are blue
Maybe moonlight follows
What’s been chasing you

Carry The World

(The) Brian Jin is/are a fluid music identity. Sometimes it’s a band consisting of Brian Kious (vocals, guitar), Nick Kladky (vocals, bass) and Casey Wollberg (vocals, guitar). Other times it’s just Brian. The band is given voice by the writings of Brian along with other members of the group. With carefully chosen words and evocative, cinematic lo-fi sound, the Brian Jin spans the spectrum of genre. 
The debut was an experimental blues EP RED DIRT BLUES in 2009, then moving to the jam band style for the album FAR TO ROAM in 2015, and a Folk/EDM fusion album in 2019 called WE SHOULD TALK. The band became increasingly prolific during the COVID lockdown of 2020. The Brian Jin released a very live and raw BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET & OTHER EXPERIENCES in October 2020. The album grew their audience exponentially and they followed up with another set of songs in the same style, but with maybe just a bit more studio experimentation. That album, THE FRENCHTOWN CONNECTION, garnered more spins than any of its predecessors combined. In December 2021, the folkier and sparser THE LAST GOOD HIGH was released. 2022 saw the release of the jubilant YOU ARE THE MOON.
Brian, having an affinity for the recordings of Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five in the 1920s, chooses a lo-fi canvas on which to present the band’s sound paintings.

The Brian Jin

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