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Shake The Spins

by Kitner

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1.
Hi-Fi Times 01:04
2.
Suddenly 02:59
suddenly, well, I was dead the black ink running from my hands when the lights, the lights went on all I saw, it all felt wrong cause you're all I want but when all the walls are caving in like a high school hallucination it's hard to get the balance right to grieve the love we lost tonight cause it all felt wrong it all felt wrong oh, my god I know it's not the same still the infatuation never changed suddenly, well, you were gone and the angel of absence has come to comfort me through my decline and all the faults of my design cause it all felt wrong oh, my god I know it's not the same still the infatuation never changed
3.
Bowery 03:41
every time that I try to save myself I sink into sevens and sevens I'm high on rye finding no salvation in these drinks but you're beautiful and blurry eyed as we walk the bowery you say it looks like I lost a bar fight, some kind of drunken divorcee I say you're not far off because it seems like I've been fighting with myself for days and days I think I need your help Its getting late lets let the bar close down lets let the last call flood lights drown us out as each stranger staggers out alone drinking like the prohibition without their chaperones but Im not you're problem the last thing I wanna be is another burden on you we might fight like family that's just what families do but you gotta help yourself no one else is gonna save you i get knocked down, don't get up again just lay there on the ground with the shakes and the spins no helping hand to be found just porcelain and piss
4.
Junebug 02:53
Ella says all of our heroes are fading she can't stand to be alone well, neither can I so I wander every night from bar to bar then show to show scan every face in the place hoping I recognize somebody that I see but I don't recognize any of the people here it's just an endless sea of strangers in black hoodies we could be heroes if that's too much to ask we could just dance cause I like your face and the way your name rhymes and we could get the rhythm right for a night in a four on floor trance Daniel said he still had your picture that something's last a lifetime but I put all yours away kept catching your face from some makeshift outdated shrine true love will find you you'll no longer live your life in vain though it's probably not me I could still walk you home you say there's too many Boston University fraternities in your neighborhood to feel safe leaving this place this late alone
5.
Beth Israel 02:58
picked up on all your bad habits through the course of the summer these cigarettes still remind me of you all the stupid shit we used to do to distract ourselves from the fact we're both dying wonce faster than the other place your bets on all that you remember and regret its often out of sight it seems when you cut the lows don't cut the highs when you're blided by the smoke in your eyes that's alright, that's okay when all your senseless innocence was stripped away you bought a fleeting glimpse at it heard you kicked a pill habit at the local hospital the one that reminds me of you when you got high and shaved your head always enigmatic no one could ever tell that you were telling the truth that's alright, that's okay when all your senseless innocence was stripped away you bought a fleeting glimpse at it through every lesson in sobriety each test i failed miserable when all that defined me was you identity was lost on me in solemn synchronicities in cycles i could never break through when you cut the lows you cut the highs you were blinded by the smoke in your eyes so that's alright, that's okay when all your senseless innocence was stripped away you bought a fleeting glimpse at it
6.
Took the train out to orient heights to ring in the new year January just brought us another fight tinnitus ringing in my ears fireworks shot overhead gracing a starless sky we raise a toast to the heavens through they always promise us hell in time oh say, so long to a six pack three or four more we're sure to lose track tried to count my blessings every lessons blacked out in blue missed the train back, no one in sight the subway screeched and signed to a distant song i hum along to the tune of auld lang syne should old acquittance be forgot shift my pockets and i find whisky, your rosary beads two spirits to keep our spirits high oh say, so long to a six pack three or four more we're sure to lose track tried to count my blessings every lessons blacked out and blue bruised in the loser's corner won't submit or admit defeat certain the light at the end of the tunnel you spoke of will shine bright white grace, faithfully upon you and me til the last light, til the last light
7.
Malden, MA 02:40
well, you say i look hungover but i'm actually still drunk stayed up all night just hoping something good would come so hear i lay in the morning light mourning another wasted night as the graveyard shifts break for the day starving but not an artist well, you say pollack was too drunk to paint and sometimes i'm too drunk to stand up straight but too stubborn to ever try to change my ways but I don't wanna die sleeping on the train tracks a death forgotten and uinseen with no identification with no wife, no kid with no wedding ring so when I'm saturday's bastard I'll put on my sunday dress might still look like shit but' its about the best its gonna get starving but not an artist u r all beautiful and I love all of u
8.
well, you stole a few medical needles the same hospital hospital, neon steeple made a makeshift tattoo on your skin before the dust settled on everything you took a shot, closed your eyes double crossed the t's dotted the i's bled through each new fine ink line by the flicker of a black bic light i'll wait up with you you would do the same if I was going through what you're going through I'll wait up with you then in New Haven Connecticut I slowly saw you lose your shit under a blood red moon with blood shot eyes you were getting too gaunt to recognize no belt loops left you're far too thin say you're seeing patterns in everything just like sterling white lines laying side by side like two shoes tied to a telephone line I'll wait up with you you would do the same if I was going through what you're going through I'll wait up with you
9.
sometimes I feel like we're getting better getting younger day by day there will be no more sorrows in the future cause we already got them all out of the way you can lie straight to your face in the mirror still it'll reflect each line age careful traced as the clock on the wall makes fools of us all I fill my lungs its a temporary escape as the fire grows closer to my face my thoughts become hard to trace I'm taken back to brighter days its you and me happy in a drunken summer's haze
10.
If there's anything left to add to this list I might just cease to exist there was a time when we both belonged but you and I know those days are gone when all that I had lost i found in you but you'll be better off without me, I know that much is true if there's something you could sing to write these wrongs you could save my life with just one song if there's any time left please lie to me I could never live with your honesty but now I know this story all too well know it's time we bid our final farewell I'm leaving all of this behind cause I could never find peace in my own mind when all that i had lost I found in you but you'll be better off without me, I know that much is true home.

about

****UK/EU vinyl copies available through Hunk Of Plastic****

****Japan vinyl copies available through After Works Distro****

It's been a long and winding road full of stops and starts for
Boston's Kitner but after 6 years they've finally reached their destination with a debut full length record in hand. Forming out of new friendships and a pair of romantic partnerships in 2015, the 5 piece quickly gained momentum both online and on stage following their 2016 EP of early Vagrant Records-fused, melancholic rock songs. However with members splitting duties in beloved melodic punk band Choke Up in addition to other member changes, Kitner took a temporary backseat. Though it was hard to shake such a strong initial reaction from what began as a casual, Miller Lite-fueled collaboration sparked by James Christopher's desire to share his love for the Get Up Kids to an unknowing co-worker (Conor Maier). Perhaps the constant balance between James and drummer Will Buiel's affinity to all things fast and overdriven with Maier's mellowed melody-driven tendencies that lands the band into exciting mutually uncharted waters. That and a shared love for the Replacements.

Fast forward to the Summer of 2019 where the group finally found
themselves back in the studio with Ryan Stack (The World Is, Tancred, My Heart to Joy) to record their highly anticipated and nearly left behind debut full length. Continuing in full Kitner fashion more changes were made by co-vocalist Brianne Costa swapping out the fan-favorite keytar for a more accessible and versatile stand alone keyboard. Studio notes reveal few sober moments during the sessions which often spill over into much of the lyrical content throughout the record. "I'm starving but not an artist/they say Pollack was too drunk to paint and that I'm too drunk to stand up straight/Too stubborn to ever try to change my way" Many of the album tracks begin hushed over an acoustic guitar not unlike contemporaries oso oso before launching into an explosive, joyous shout-along almost as if the alcohol started working mid-song.

Shake The Spins has had the luxury of both marinating in its influences and allowing plenty of time for the band to meticulously explore ways to make their own nuances by including pitched string arrangements, swirling layers of samples, and harmonica solos - all of which together serve to build one of the most cohesive and impressive debuts in recent memory. With final touches by legendary mastering engineer Alan Douches (Saves the Day, the Promise Ring, Japandroids), Kitner have finally arrived with Shake The Spins and with plenty of gas left in the tank. Shake The Spins out October 1st via Relief Map Records.

"“Beth Israel.” It’s our first taste of Shake the Spins, the band’s debut full length and one of the best albums of the year." - The Alternative

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released October 1, 2021

Engineered and mixed by Ryan Stack at The Noise Floor in Dover, NH
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music in Corwall on Hudson, NY
Art Design and layout by Chloe Deeley and Conor Maier
Band Photos by Brittany Rose Queen

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