Kitten Robot Records announces new releases from Josie Cotton, Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe, Kira and more!
KITTEN ROBOT RECORDS
Announces a Busy Second Half of 2021
With New Releases from Josie Cotton, Kira, Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe and more!
AUGUST 25, 2021 (Los Angeles, CA) — Kitten Robot Records was founded in 2019 by recording artist Josie Cotton and record producer Paul Roessler. The boutique label was launched to provide a home for all of Cotton’s releases dating back to her first LP Convertible Music. In addition to Cotton’s own catalog, Kitten Robot has also become a hotspot for new music produced at Kitten Robot Studio, including CrowJane, Tombstones In Their Eyes, Harry Cloud, Kira and Inger Lorre.
As the label continues to expand, the artist family has grown to include Eddie Spaghetti and Frank Meyer, Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe, Hayley and the Crushers, Glitter Wizard, Candy Whips and Velvet Starlings.
With a healthy roster of the exciting side of indie and wildly experimental alternative music, Kitten Robot is gearing up with an exciting Fall 2021!
August 24
Josie Cotton
Pussycat Babylon
Digital album and vinyl out now!
Genre: Electropop
“Pussycat Babylon was my journey into electro-pop and public nudity. I reveal everything on this record, stripped to the bone, curled up in the fetal position. I eat my own arm.”
– Josie Cotton
Pussycat Babylon is an electropop masterstroke of musical pastiches, fetching melodies and energetic rhythms and marks her metamorphosis as a songwriter. From the motor-revving excitement of ‘Recipe For Disaster’ to the flamboyantly technicolor single “Calling All Girls” to the dark, sexy noir slink of “Stop Iggy Pop” to the majestic disco of “All I Can See Is The Face of Bruce Lee” to the saccharine promiscuity of “Super 8” the album is an excursion into Josie’s ultra-creative and hyperactive mind.
September 28
Kira
Kira
CD, digital release and “The Ghost” video premiere
Genre: Dark Minimalism
“KIRA is a labor of love that has been years in the making. Writing these songs allowed me to express some of the feelings that were just impossible to express in any other manner.
It still makes me cry.
I hope someone else out there can experience something they need to feel through a listen.”
– Kira
September 29
Velvet Starlings
Technicolour Shakedown
digital (vinyl out in November)
Genre: Psychedelic Rock / Garage Rock
“We are so excited to be a part of the Kitten Robot family, our debut album Technicolour Shakedown will be out later this year and we can’t wait for it to come out on Kitten Robot Records!” – Christian Gisborne
October 12
Eddie Spaghetti and Frank Meyer
Motherfuckin’ Rock ‘n’ Roll
Genre: Rock/Americana
“Eddie and I met in the late ‘90s when his band The Supersuckers took out my band The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs as support on a national tour. Ever since then we we stayed friends, touring and playing shows together. But when COVID hit and we suddenly found ourselves with too much damn time on our hands, and since we lived somewhat close to each other, we started writing songs together and recording them from our home studios. It started with a song called “Shit’s Fucked” that Eddie wrote about the pandemic, then we released an updated cover of Tom Petty’s “Jammin’ Me.” After those first two were so well-received, we started writing an entire album and Motherfuckin’ Rock ’N’ Roll was born.”
– Frank Meyer
October 15
Dark Mark and Skeleton Joe
Dark Mark and Skeleton Joe (KR/Rare Bird)
Genre: Death Disco
A project born from mutual respect, Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe mines electronic music and unearths an experimental sound for both of them. A prolific artist and author, Screaming Trees’ Mark Lanegan has collaborated with former The Icarus Line frontman Joe Cardamone for this project which Rolling Stone calls “sinister dance music.”
With a predilection toward the darker shade of music, DMvsSJ leans heavily into midnight rhythms, inciting strains of Tones on Tail, Bauhaus, and IAMX. “I just wanted to make some instrumentals that I thought Mark’s voice would shine on, something hard with space for Mark to let go,” explains Cardamone.
Recent Kitten Robot Releases
Released August 10, 2021
Hayley and the Crushers “She Drives” (single)
Genre: Poolside Glitter Trash
Hayley and the Crushers grab the steering wheel with “She Drives,” an ode to open road freedom and leaving angst in the rearview mirror. Fizzy, frothy, and still a little dangerous, Hayley and the Crushers offer up a truck load of bold, bad girl fun. Produced by legendary punk producer Paul Roessler (TSOL, Josie Cotton, Richie Ramone) at New Wave icon Josie Cotton’s Kitten Robot Studios in LA, and mastered by Mass Giorgini (Anti-Flag, Rise Against, Alkaline Trio) at Sonic Iguana Studios, the track is a sticky mid-summer joyride paved by the kind of breezy retro-pop-rock perfection so sorely missing from today’s radio dial.
“There’s a palpable temptation for me to label ‘She Drives’, plus Hayley and the Crushers, a throwback to ’90s rockers like The Muffs or Sleater-Kinney, but that would imply that female-led punk-inspired rock bands with a fondness or catchy earworms don’t exist in the modern day. They absolutely do, and if you need a new one to latch on to, Hayley and the Crushers are just waiting for you to discover them.” – Far Out Magazine
“Like a Sour Patch Kid, Hayley & the Crushers are unapologetically bright and fun, with a wallop of mischief.” – BUST Magazine
Released July 27, 2021
Candy Whips “Days Like These”
From the album Automaton
Genre: Synth Punk
“Automaton is a collection of songs from my plague bunker. Unable to commune with my normal crew of Wizards, I was forced to get creative. I had a small collection of synths I had been amassing and decided it was time to put them to work. Inspired by the works of Gary Numan, Kraftwerk and Devo, I set off in a new direction and was quite pleased with the results.” – Wendy Stonehenge
“You can hear elements of Trevor Horn, Oingo Boingo, Wall of Voodoo, and Sparks as well. Candy Whips is as challenging as it is danceable…” – Post-Punk.com
Released April 20, 2021
Tombstones In Their Eyes “Quarantine Blues”
From the album Looking For A Light
Genre: Psych Rock, Shoegaze, Neo-Psychedelia
Attracting fans of desert rock, shoegaze, goth, and neo-garage without aligning themselves directly with any these camps, TITE have been creating a fuzzed-out, psychedelic swirl for the past few years. Now with Looking For A Light, TITE have shifting their sound ever-so-slightly while elevating it up a few notches. It is an album swathed in thick fuzz that allows its melodies to shine bright.
“[Looking For a Light is] hypnotic and… dizzying, distorted, and off-the-wall at times. It’s also a new and spectacular taste of what a modern shoegaze band with an experimental rock edge can do with the right tools and the perfect amount of passion.” – Aquarian Weekly
Released September 15, 2020
CrowJane “Delusion”
From the album Mater Dolorosa
Genre: experimental post-punk Mixing contemporary production with a real DIY aesthetic, CrowJane and producer Paul Roessler together explored sound textures and other effects to create the captivating soundscapes that envelop her uniquely haunting vocals. “Mater Dolorosa was an experimental adventure of messing with different sounds and homemade instruments,” she explains of the unconventional instrumentation that included tin cans, bed railings and even cat litter.
“CrowJane conjures eerie soundscapes and instrumentals swirling with brimming intensity and marries them with an equally enticing visual narrative.” – Under The Radar
