Album Cover & ‘S.A.D.’ Video by artist Danny Cohen

Danny’s work reached a popular high last year with both triple j and ARIA nominating his video work with King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard as the year’s best. “I’d been wanting to shoot Kirin for a while, I knew we could create something really wild and that he’d be down for anything I threw at him. We wanted to explore the potential fine line between smut and art, beauty and vulgar, poser and provocateur. We wanted to explore around the permissions a person can create in society and see which side of those our collaborations would fall into.”

With Splendour in the Grass sold out, the only confirmed Australian shows for 2017 for Kirin J Callinan will be the Bravado album tour dates. Ticket are on sale now!

Album foreword by Roy Molloy (saxophonist, friend and business partner of Mr Alex Cameron; with touches from Al Cam himself)

It’s 2017, and as a fresh tide of Australian acts froth across the world, charming international audiences with their rough & ready style, we have a major source to credit with that Australian brand of obscene confidence so frequently on display. Kirin J Callinan.

It’s fair of you to wonder where a man like Kirin J comes from. What mix of lust and love, violence and tenderness; what strange turn of events lead to this apparition riding into town?

Kirin is an Australian Man. He’s heat shimmer on a road and waves white against ocean blue. Built like an amateur boxer, long and strong, and dressed like a toreador. Tiger blood and a dick like a chair leg. Drinks salt water and holds eye contact after offering you a sip.

This is a man who could have settled for a life of patronized excess. Been a kept man on any continent on earth. Lying poolside, skin browned, slick with sun oil, a drink in hand, fucking some poor schmo’s grandmother and living like a prince.

And yet he’s here, stood on a stage at midnight, surrounded by drunks. A fantasy creature existing firm in reality. And when he takes to his guitar, flanked by amplifiers, girt by Boss, cables growing and spreading like vines from out around him; he produces sounds at once captivating and beautiful for their violence and creativity. It’s hard to explain the feeling. The tension in your heart. The strange, sexy feeling you get from peeling a banana. Melodies make you wince at their pure creativity. Euro trash is another man’s treasure. Beyond pastiche. Sonically out amongst the corpses and flying bullets; not stooped in the trenches. A man on the front line.

Kirin J Callinan is an apex predator. A butterfly. A grass fire. A beautiful baby boy wandered curious into the gun safe. You’re listening to something very specific when you’re hearing Kirin J express himself. And you’re right to be wondering if this mania, this insanity, this total abandon exists within all of us. Makes you wonder if you’ve just missed out. If you’re a coward for never trying. If you were ever on the field in the first place. Out there is a pendulum that swings recklessly between madness and delicate precision.

But what is recklessness without talent? What’s a prisoner without his trade? A maniac without the voices in her head? What do we work with when the world puts too much space between us and our treasured visions of the future? Bravado.

BRAVADO TRACKLISTING

1. My Moment feat. Sean Nicholas Savage
2. S.A.D. (Song About Drugs)
3. Down 2 Hang feat. James Chance
4. Living Each Day feat. Connan Mockasin
5. Big Enough feat. Alex Cameron, Molly Lewis and Jimmy Barnes
6. Family Home feat. Finn Family
7. Telling Me This feat. Jorge Elbrecht
8. This Whole Town feat. STAR
9. Friend Of Lindy Morrison feat. Weyes Blood
10. Bravado

KIRIN J CALLINAN
BRAVADO AUSTRALIAN ALBUM TOUR
Tickets on sale now

FRI 9 JUNE – THE FOUNDRY, BRISBANE
http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=73172
http://thefoundry.oztix.com.au/?Event=73172

SAT 10 JUNE – OXFORD ART FACTORY, SYDNEY
http://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/kirin-j-callinan/95465

THUR 15 JUNE – CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/kirin-j-callinan-tickets-33981661063

FRI 16 JUNE – ED CASTLE, ADELAIDE
http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=73174

SAT 17 JUNE – ROSEMOUNT HOTEL, PERTH
http://rosemounthotel.oztix.com.au/?eventId=73176

SUN 18 JUNE – MOJO’S, FREMANTLE
http://mojosbar.oztix.com.au/?eventId=73177

INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES

THURS 27 APRIL – DOUR FIR LOUNGE, PORTLAND
FRI 28 APRIL – NEUMOS , SEATTLE
SAT 29 APRIL – BILTMORE CABARET, VANCOUVER
TUES 2 MAY – TURF CLUB, ST PAUL
WED 3 MAY EMPTY BOTTLE, CHICAGO
FRI 5 MAY – MOD CLUB THEATRE, TORONTO
SUN 7 MAY – THE SINCLAIR, CAMBRIDGE
TUES 9 MAY – MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
WED 10 MAY – BOWERY BALLROOM, NEW YORK
THURS 11 MAY – JOHNNY BRENDAS, PHILADELPHIA
FRI 12 MAY – BLACK CAT, WASHINGTON
WED 31 MAY – 02 BRIXTON ACADEMY, LONDON*
(with POND * // all other dates with MAC DEMARCO )

First single ‘BRAVADO’ and ‘S.A.D.’ out now via Siberia Records / EMI Music Australia.

Bravado will be released June 9 – Pre-order HERE.

Merchandise & music bundles are available from the Kirin J Callinan store.

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