"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. Please enjoy our forty free songs as evidence that something hopefully worthwhile but probably nonsensical is actually occuring. News Late September, 2009 After a long delay, work is finally commencing towards the completion of Exploding Schoolgirls' 50-song mega-album Feast of Excited Insects. Hopefully work will be completed by the end of this year, and the album will be released sometime early next year. Shortly afterwards, we hope to finish and release the Carrot Eaters debut. -- French record label Bulle Sonore included the Exploding Schoolgirls track "Queen of the Popular Crowd" on its international indie pop compilation Never Dreamed Night Freeze Sandwich. The compilation also includes a song by Denim, the 90s band led by Lawrence from one of my favorite 80s bands, Felt. Other bands include Marsheaux, Katsen, Bal Pare, Fiendish Fib, Egyptian Eyes, Hemstad, Hidrogenesse, Dondolo, Clap Machine, Rudebot, Soft Priest, Silver Screen, Mask, Fiber Study, Ruth Uve, Coldgate, Tim Ten Yen, De Portables and Magø. It is available for purchase (on import) at Bulle Sonore Records. More info also at http://www.myspace.com/nightfreezesandwich 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.