KPR-009'A Day Without Comfort' by Nick Hudson  Available now!
Following on from 2010’s epic "My Antique Son" (made with his sometime ensemble The Academy of Sun), "A Day Without Comfort" sees Nick again in solo guise, offering up a platter of eleven hauntingly-executed songs dealing with the biography of a dear friend and with Nick’s own manifold political/spiritual/social concerns. Nick Hudson on 'A Day Without Comfort':"‘A Day Without Comfort’ was conceived as a solo record, in the sense that it may on occasion sound like a band, but would be entirely solo, hermetic, even, in contrast to the previous record, which was the work of thirteen musicians of disparate backgrounds.It’s an album of songs, whose lyrics, written before the music, were birthed zealously over two days in the company of a dear friend, whose extraordinary life the lyrics interweave with my own (morbid) socio-political reflections on contemporary life in England. Structurally, it loosely traces the trajectory of a life (birth-rejection of authoritarian institutions-suicide attempt-resuscitation-reintegration into society), as a framing device to consider the tensions of being a self-situated radical/outsider (of any persuasion) in an increasingly homogenized and mediocrity-saturated society. Given the weight of the lyrical content, my intention was to have the music be accessible, replete with pop hooks, choruses, and structures adherent to established song-form. Naturally, being me, this deviated somewhat, but it’s as close to a pop record as I deem myself capable of making at this juncture. ‘A Day Without Comfort’ is at once my tribute to a close friend and my ‘politically-fucked-off’ record." TRACKLISTING
1. Bad Atoms 2. Sunday Boarding House 3. Gnosis 4. Murmur 5. Something Falling Slowly 6. Birth Guilt of the Misconceived 7. Merry Dance 8. Land of Decay 9. Quantum Lock 10. The Vessel of Eternal Youth 11. Subterranean, Eyeless AUDIO SAMPLESListen to 'ADWC' in its entirety on the Kiddiepunk Bandcamp page.PURCHASE INFO
DIGITAL VERSION: Purchase now from Bandcamp - iTunes - Amazon (US) - Amazon (UK) LIMITED EDITION CD-R VERSION: Features a 16-page, risograph-printed booklet with lyrics, texts and illustrations.  KPR-007'Whale/Taylor' by Marcus Whale & Aspen Michael Taylor 
‘Whale/Taylor’, the first collaboration between Sydney-based composer Marcus Whale (Scissor Lock) and artist / filmmaker Aspen Michael Taylor, holds as its central focus a trashed underside of ambience, caked and hidden in decay and resonance. Mirroring the themes of duality and shadowing represented in its track titles and artwork, the album’s moments of repose always feel as if they’re under constant threat of being engulfed by an all-encompassing darkness.
Released: 2010 TRACKLISTING(*Listening to tracks requires the Quicktime Plugin)
1. Transcendent Unconscious / Mirrors (6:16) (Listen) 2. Skinwalkers (8:01) (Listen) 3. Cutting A Door / Mirrors (10:18) PURCHASE INFO
DIGITAL VERSION: Purchase from iTunes or Bandcamp LIMITED EDITION CD-R VERSION: Includes 12 page zine featuring text by Marcus Whale and artwork by Aspen Michael Taylor - SOLD OUT! KPR-005'The Elegy' by Nick Hudson 
The first part of a self-devouring trilogy themed around death, immolation and rebirth, Nick Hudson’s first release on Kiddiepunk Records, ‘The Elegy’ verges on the sublime so frequently that it seems like he must have made a deal with an omnipotent deity. At once tender, expansive, intimate and beautiful, ‘The Elegy’ occupies that infinite, indefinable space in between the worlds; songs that open up entire, utterly vivid and transcendant 'scapes. Spare, haunting and delicately forthright, ‘The Elegy’ weaves together chant, folk-song, Americana, and subtle electronics to create a deeply stirring and evocative work. The cover artwork is by Alex Rose.
Released: 2008 TRACKLISTING(*Listening to tracks requires the Quicktime Plugin)
1. The God Haemhorrage (Listen) 2. Bacchanalia 3. Atlantic Dash (Listen) 4. Black Carnations 5. Argentum 6. Under The Mill (Listen) 7. Very Good For Someone Dead 8. The Dream Distiller 9. The Filth Of No Ember PURCHASE INFOKPR-003'Tennis' by Aspen Michael Taylor 
Mixing analogue drones and recontextualised experiments with feedback recorded between nine years with samples of reverb-drenched Hanson songs, this tape-only release, is maybe what it would sound like if you could put a tape recorder inside someone’s psyche. (Run time: 22 mins)
Released: 2008 PURCHASE INFO
This was a limited edition release and is now SOLD OUT KPR-001'Little Slumberland EP' by The Time of the Assassins 
The Time Of The Assassins' 'Little Slumberland' ep is ground zero for both the band and Kiddiepunk Records. Released in May 2007 as an entree to long-player 'Awake In Slumberland's' main course, the ep serves up three cuts from the record with two slabs of improvised-in-the-studio mayhem. Aspen Michael Taylor did the front cover art and photographs by Joel Westendorf adorn the back cover and booklet.
Released: 2007 TRACKLISTING(*Listening to tracks requires the Quicktime Plugin)
1. The Double (Listen) 2. Bones 3. The New City Of Children (Listen) 4. 70 Days & 70 Nights 5. The Lake (Listen) PURCHASE INFO |
KPR-008'The Vessel of Eternal Youth EP' by Nick Hudson 
This exclusive EP showcases two stunning cuts from Nick's long-player 'A Day Without Comfort', plus three previously unreleased tracks.
Released: 2011 TRACKLISTING
1. The Vessel of Eternal Youth 2. Lautreamont's Garden 3. No-one Will Get Hurt 4. Unhinged Malady 5. Merry Dance PURCHASE INFO
THIS EP IS AVAILABLE AS A FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: Download it from the KP Bandcamp Site KPR-006'Milk Teeth' by Aspen Michael Taylor 
KPR-006... Might as well be KPR-666 with the unabashed hell that gets unleashed on this release by Aspen Michael Taylor.
Features three tracks, including 'The Anti-Birth', which is akin to being trapped inside an emotional black hole. Managing to be both desperate and expansive, it's locked inside a deep groove one part hell-stasis, one part beatific. By the time you get to the second track, 'Celing', a sonic replication of a very specific physical interior (map included), you come face-to-face with something evil that lives "up there", in that particular corner where the walls meet the ceiling. What does it all mean? You'll know when you hear it and you turn it up real fucking loud. 'Milk Teeth' comes in special hand-assembled packaging and also includes an 8-page zine. The actual disc is of the protective black-dye kind. Released: 2009 TRACKLISTING(*Listening to tracks requires the Quicktime Plugin)PURCHASE INFO
LIMITED EDITION CD-R VERSION: SOLD OUT
2011 DIGITAL VERSION: With the physical version being long sold out and it never being released digitally, you can now listen to and purchase 'Milk Teeth' from Bandcamp. KPR-004'The New Queen' by Carisa Bianca Mellado 
Carisa Bianca Mellado’s stunning debut solo record ‘The New Queen’ is a record so bold, forthright and utterly unclassifiable that it feels like it’s rewriting all the rules of genre. Hovering between experimental classical, gothic and avant-opera, ‘The New Queen’ takes on a haunting and otherworldly quality, leading the listener through ancient corners of the psyche – as though dancing through medieval carnivals and coronations; into dark dungeons, barns and funeral grounds. At times harrowing, disturbing, luscious and grandiose, ‘The New Queen’ is a deeply affecting work of true artistry and vast beauty.
Released: 2008 TRACKLISTING(*Listening to tracks requires the Quicktime Plugin)
1. War 2. The New Queen (Listen) 3. Skin (Listen) 4. Killer (Listen) 5. White Blood (Listen) 6. Kinetics 7. The Maiden (Listen) 8. Arachne 9. 1608 (Listen) 10. The Gift PURCHASE INFOKPR-002'Awake in Slumberland' by The Time of the Assassins 
Combining the band’s penchant for slow, repetitive trance music, like epic 16-minute track ‘The Return’, the sprawling ‘Mad A’ and the instrumental ‘The Double’ with the apocalyptic post-punk of ‘Bones’ and ‘70 Days & 70 Nights’ and numbers like the tribal ‘The Valley Of The Kings’, the war-opera battle call ‘Prayer’ and the pounding electricity of ‘Math’, 'Awake In Slumberland' paints a landscape which is populated by ghosts, mythology, intoxication, madness and electricity that builds slowly to its frenzied and disoriented climax.
Released: 2007 TRACKLISTING(*Listening to tracks requires the Quicktime Plugin)
1. The Valley Of The Kings 2. Prayer (Listen) 3. The Double 4. 70 Days & 70 Nights (Listen) 5. Bones (Listen) 6. Math (Listen) 7. The Swan 8. Mad A 9. Ghost No. 4 10. The Return (Listen) PURCHASE INFO
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