"Modern Music for People Who Hate Modern Music" About Us Paper Hat Records was begun in 2004 in Asheville, NC as an outlet for releasing the assorted musical projects of Nick Wilson and Garrett Johnson. Lack of resources and extenuating circumstances - ahem, perfectionism - have delayed the label's commercial initiation; nonetheless, much musical prolificity has occured over the past four years. The label is currently based in Richardson, TX and it looks like 2008 might be the year that the label finally crawls out of the safety of the womb and into the harsh and critical light of the rest of the world. Until then, please enjoy our forty free songs as evidence that something hopefully worthwhile but probably nonsensical is actually occuring. News Carrot Eaters are in the process of finishing up their first, as yet untitled CD. We're planning to release the album sometime this fall. The songs are mostly finished, now we're in the audio arithmetic mode. We are really pleased with the results so far. The CD will have 14 songs running at over 60 minutes, as well as some bonus demo versions of some of the songs tacked on. Tracks, in alphabetical order (not as they will go on the album), with titles subject to change: Born with a Silver Prune in my Mouth Carrot Eaters Enjoy Wild Sex Despite all the Scabies Embryo of a Tape Loop I Hope It's Still Geodesic Flags of Truth Miniature Cyclorama No More Shoebox Pinwheels in the Desert Postcard Shroud Salivating Lampshade Silos Where the Eves Grew Stuck Pigs and Floating Windowsills You Who Do Not Dwindle --- Exploding Schoolgirls is also well on the way towards completing Feast of Excited Insects. The ambitious CD will have somewhere between 35-50 songs, averaging about a minute and a half each and spanning a very large swath of styles and influences while attempting to maintain qualitative consistency. It will probably be released this fall or winter. It's mostly complete at this point other than needing a lot of elaboration, re-recording, mixing, mastering, etc. Current tracks up for consideration (there's a lot of them): Anglophile, Antonym, Bacon Man, Bedroom of Eels, Been So Long, Calm Down Henry, Carbonated Florist Guild, Charles de Gaulle Glee Club, Day of the Dead, Dear Lonesome Eyes, Double Dutch, Feast of Excited Insects, Fogeaters Fall Behind, Francoise Hardy, Getting In Touch With My Feminine Side, Give an Armless Nun a Hand, Goodbye Mister X-Ray, Harry, You�re Spliced and Tentacled, Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning, Hello Robot How Are You, Her Garden Never Grew, Horizontal Mansions, I Am the Platypus, If You Need Me, Incessant Heartworm Blues, Ipperwash Beach, Junk, Ladies In Waiting, Last Parade, Let�s Do Our Taxes Together, Lieutenant Lester, Look At Princess, Mapmaking, Mausoleum, Mezzanine, New York City, Pink Filmstrip Marie, Queen of the Popular Crowd, Raspberry Hill, Scatterbrained, Soft Horse Infinitive, Spastic Nonsense, Strangers, Superhighways, Temper Tantrum, The Man Who Couldn't Have Fun, The Narcissist, Trapped Inside the Sound Collage, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Underneath Your Spell, Vampire Chasing the Daylight, Wilderness of Fleas, Whale Hunt, You�re Not the Same What doesn't make it on the album will probably be on a future early recordings / rarities / outtakes / demos comp entitled "Steak and Bubblegum." We also hope to complete and release the original "Feast of Excited Insects" (with 18 completely different songs) under a different title. Also, there's a batch of new ES songs for yet the next album already written for future honing and recording. --- Mongolia has gone from being Nick Wilson's solo project to being a full band. Members now include Bradford Jackson (drums), David Shackelford (guitar, sampler, keyboards, bass) and Connor Stratman (guitar). We've been working on some new recordings and will hopefully be playing live shows around the Dallas area pretty soon. --- After the Mongolia and Exploding Schoolgirls albums are completed, Nick will begin recording the first Shoesies album, which is already half written. The record will be titled "Degenerate Music" and will likely be exactly that. Our Mission Our mission is to fight modern music's mediocrity, laziness, lack of creativity, etc. Our slogan is "Modern Music for People Who Hate Modern Music" because we have the misfortune to exist in a time when mainstream music is probably at an artistic nadir and most underground music sounds rather like the mainstream music, with "hipster" indicators. The corporatization and gentrification of indie rock has come at the cost of innovation, killed the "do-it-yourself" aesthetic and thrown melody and thoughfulness through a gauntlet of slick vomit. Music videos look like bad videogames, and overemoting has replaced meaningfulness. Instead of becoming bitter and wallowing in the putrid stench of it all, our purpose is to try to create something new and demonstrate that the world is not yet out of new ideas - by finding inspiration from the distant past and working to build something completely different.