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Jordan Krimston’s new album plays the songs he wants to hear
“Learning how to be a casual listener again is important.”
Jordan Krimston: “I have been trying to get back into how I used to listen to things when I was younger.”
Jordan Krimston’s last solo album, 2023’s Somewhere I Might Go, was released on Boston’s Counter Intuitive Records. He was busy with other projects at the time, and decided that since this was his first album with a real label, he would remain hands-off and “let them handle everything.” While he is not religious, Krimston pulled the album’s title from a Bible verse which implies that one should find joy in the midst of suffering or trials. Maybe that explains why he is once again embracing the self-release model that he employed on his 2021 LP, Bushwhacking for this new one as well.
“I have a love/hate relationship with doing it myself,” he says. “It’s a lot of work and I don’t know how to do PR in this day and age. I put out Bushwhacking through Half Way Home, which is my friend’s label. It’s kind of a label. It’s a little more DIY. It’s not like a national label by any means. So, I was really involved with planning who we were gonna reach out to, to do interviews or reviews and music videos or shows. I feel like it had a really good organic growth.”
The new album is composed of nine songs that clock in at just under half an hour. He estimates that he had about 30 demos to work with, and most of them were nixed. “There are songs that I spent a ton of time on that I’m like, This isn’t working for me. I’m not drawn to want to listen to this right now. The songs on the album are the ones that I was craving listening to. It sounds like such a basic concept, but it’s stuff that you kind of forget as you get further into the music world. Learning how to be a casual listener again is important. Now that I’m in the mixing, engineering and recording world a little bit more, it’s so easy to listen to things and immediately start critiquing them. This frequency is bugging me. This thing is sticking out. The drums sound weird here. It’s so easy to get into that headspace. I have been trying to get back into how I used to listen to things when I was younger. You just put a song on, and you just listen to it. You don’t listen to the mix, you don’t listen to the instruments, you just hear the song.”
Upcoming Event
Ten Bulls and Jordan Krimston Album Release
- Friday, January 31, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
- Age Limit: 21+ / $15.97
Krimston has remained busy as a touring drummer for Long Beach, New York’s Oso Oso since 2021. So far, the band has sent him all over the U.S. and overseas to Europe and Japan. He raves about how the gig allows him to get that “touring itch scratched” when he plays “dope shows with these cool bands all over the world.” And by the time he returns home, he is ready to rev up his own creative energy, since Oso Oso is basically singer/guitarist Jade Lilitri’s solo vehicle. “With my other projects in San Diego like my solo work or Band Argument or Weatherbox, I am in more of a position where I really want to work on getting the writing cool and getting the recordings sounding good. All three of those bands don’t really play shows very often, but then when we do, each one scratches a totally different itch.”
Other acts Krimston has recorded or played with this year include The Co Founder, Nervous Surface, Foxtide, and Somme. He has connected with many of his current collaborators via the Oso Oso scene, and feels that his connection to this networked world can be traced back to one of the most basic outlets imaginable: an internet message board. “The first band that got me into this kind of touring, Oso world was the Obsessives,” he says. “I met them on a Weatherbox forum. I was in high school and a fan of the band, and they were in high school and fans of Weatherbox. Then my old high school band, Big Bad Buffalo, toured with them when they did their first U.S. tour the year after they graduated. That was my first ‘in’ for this whole scene. It’s crazy, because if I was never on that forum or they were never on that forum... The butterfly effect” — the notion that tiny events can lead to large consequences — “is so real. I would be in such a different place. I think I would still be playing music, but maybe I would be backing some jazz band or a corporate punk band. I have no idea.”
Here's something you might be interested in.
Jordan Krimston’s new album plays the songs he wants to hear
“Learning how to be a casual listener again is important.”
Jordan Krimston’s new album plays the songs he wants to hear
“Learning how to be a casual listener again is important.”
Jordan Krimston: “I have been trying to get back into how I used to listen to things when I was younger.”
Jordan Krimston’s last solo album, 2023’s Somewhere I Might Go, was released on Boston’s Counter Intuitive Records. He was busy with other projects at the time, and decided that since this was his first album with a real label, he would remain hands-off and “let them handle everything.” While he is not religious, Krimston pulled the album’s title from a Bible verse which implies that one should find joy in the midst of suffering or trials. Maybe that explains why he is once again embracing the self-release model that he employed on his 2021 LP, Bushwhacking for this new one as well.
“I have a love/hate relationship with doing it myself,” he says. “It’s a lot of work and I don’t know how to do PR in this day and age. I put out Bushwhacking through Half Way Home, which is my friend’s label. It’s kind of a label. It’s a little more DIY. It’s not like a national label by any means. So, I was really involved with planning who we were gonna reach out to, to do interviews or reviews and music videos or shows. I feel like it had a really good organic growth.”
The new album is composed of nine songs that clock in at just under half an hour. He estimates that he had about 30 demos to work with, and most of them were nixed. “There are songs that I spent a ton of time on that I’m like, This isn’t working for me. I’m not drawn to want to listen to this right now. The songs on the album are the ones that I was craving listening to. It sounds like such a basic concept, but it’s stuff that you kind of forget as you get further into the music world. Learning how to be a casual listener again is important. Now that I’m in the mixing, engineering and recording world a little bit more, it’s so easy to listen to things and immediately start critiquing them. This frequency is bugging me. This thing is sticking out. The drums sound weird here. It’s so easy to get into that headspace. I have been trying to get back into how I used to listen to things when I was younger. You just put a song on, and you just listen to it. You don’t listen to the mix, you don’t listen to the instruments, you just hear the song.”
Upcoming Event
Ten Bulls and Jordan Krimston Album Release
- Friday, January 31, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego
- Age Limit: 21+ / $15.97
Krimston has remained busy as a touring drummer for Long Beach, New York’s Oso Oso since 2021. So far, the band has sent him all over the U.S. and overseas to Europe and Japan. He raves about how the gig allows him to get that “touring itch scratched” when he plays “dope shows with these cool bands all over the world.” And by the time he returns home, he is ready to rev up his own creative energy, since Oso Oso is basically singer/guitarist Jade Lilitri’s solo vehicle. “With my other projects in San Diego like my solo work or Band Argument or Weatherbox, I am in more of a position where I really want to work on getting the writing cool and getting the recordings sounding good. All three of those bands don’t really play shows very often, but then when we do, each one scratches a totally different itch.”
Other acts Krimston has recorded or played with this year include The Co Founder, Nervous Surface, Foxtide, and Somme. He has connected with many of his current collaborators via the Oso Oso scene, and feels that his connection to this networked world can be traced back to one of the most basic outlets imaginable: an internet message board. “The first band that got me into this kind of touring, Oso world was the Obsessives,” he says. “I met them on a Weatherbox forum. I was in high school and a fan of the band, and they were in high school and fans of Weatherbox. Then my old high school band, Big Bad Buffalo, toured with them when they did their first U.S. tour the year after they graduated. That was my first ‘in’ for this whole scene. It’s crazy, because if I was never on that forum or they were never on that forum... The butterfly effect” — the notion that tiny events can lead to large consequences — “is so real. I would be in such a different place. I think I would still be playing music, but maybe I would be backing some jazz band or a corporate punk band. I have no idea.”
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