Black by Jinx

Black is where the Book of Colors starts. Anthony wrote it in 2016, during a bad stretch for our family and for him, along with the two albums that follow it. When he brought it to me to record, all three were already laid out and tied together.

This is the album that introduces Jinx. The track JINX does exactly that. Mesopotamia is North Platte, where we grew up. Mother Mary is about our mom. Landau is named for the bars on the side of a hearse. It's personal from the first song to the last, even when it's dressed up as a story.

I didn't make the beats. Urban Nerd and Clyad are among the producers on it. I engineered the whole record at KFR Studio A, our first studio, which was the walk-in closet of my apartment in Bishop Heights. Black carries catalog number KFR001. It's the first release on Killing Field Records.

Play it front to back. That's how Anthony built it and that's how I want people to hear it. If you only want the hardest ones, start with Landau and Mother Mary, then go back to the top.

It's the darkest of the three. Sanguine is where it turns to rage, and Gold is where the light comes in, but none of that lands without Black first.

Seven tracks. Jinx, Bomb, Mother Mary, Mesopotamia, Black, Landau and End. Anthony brought me all three albums laid out together. Black was record one of three, and he already knew what two and three were.

KFR001. First release on this label. Everything after it starts here.

Released 01/03/2020 by Killing Field Records. Tracked and mixed by Bryan "Cryptic-X" Jenkins. Recorded at KFR Studio A (Lincoln, Nebraska).