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Music News - K M T P releases their debut album 'With Love, K M T P'

K M T P releases their debut album 'With Love, K M T P'

28 September 2023 - 0 Comments

K M T P is the musical project of Keria Paterson (Te Arawa, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāi Tahu, they/them), a musician and songwriter currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Before starting K M T P, Paterson spent the majority of their time behind the drum kit, performing in groups like Polyester, Dirty Pixels and more recently Dead Famous People.

Their debut EP was made by curating jangly guitars, melodic casio keyboards and earnest storytelling. In the three years since K M T P have cranked it up, letting listeners lose themselves in smooth layers of distortion and fuzz, all the while keeping sincere songwriting firmly at the core.

Following the singles 2:45 (Getting Old), Walk Out To Space and First Date, today K M T P releases their debut album With Love, K M T P (out on Vinyl LP and Digitally on September 28 via Sunreturn).

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With Love, K M T P is an album which feels distilled from long times and great distances. “Two days is a long time”, Paterson sings – packing a few bars of music with a thousand agonising moments. Earlier in the album, 2021 Was Fun invests that recent time with such poignant nostalgia, it turns years into decades. It’s a grandeur and depth of feeling that K M T P’s Keria Paterson has grown into. Born of a world-weariness and self-assurance that was only hinted at on their 2020 EP P.S C U SOON, this is the kind of debut that feels like it’s making good on the promise of that earlier worker – the same vision, only cleaner, deeper, more refined.

Key to that vision is an unmistakably Aotearoa take on emo: campfire acoustic strums leading into churning walls of distortion, voices hoarse from last night’s roadtrip sing-along, trumpets trading solos with third-hand synthesisers. At the centre is Keria's devastatingly direct songwriting, the heavy-heartbeat soundtrack to losing direction, finding love, and figuring yourself out. Deceptively simple and disarmingly earnest, every song feels well-worn and quietly anthemic – equally at home, blaring in the stadium, or discovered on a long forgotten mix CD.

"I had never created an album as a solo musician," says Paterson. "I really wanted to embrace this new challenge as an artist. It felt like something I needed to do at the time in order to properly represent the songs in my desired way. I think of albums as more of a complete story than as a collection of songs; I really wanted to lean into this mentality for With Love, K M T P."

"The main themes for the album are about self-discovery and self-reflection. It’s a very personal album for me, and it deals with a lot of experiences I had growing up in my early 20's. A lot of the other themes are fairly grim: depression, anxiety, self-acceptance, finding love. I’ve tried to contrast the sombre themes in the album with upbeat and emo-adjacent guitar riffs and “wall-of-sound” drum and bass riffs.

Patterson recorded nearly all of the instrumentation over a short week with producer Peter Ruddell (Wax Chattels, Sulfate, D.C. Maxwell) at Jonathan Pearce’s (The Beths) Karangahape Road studio. The album was mixed by Ruddell, mastered by James Goldsmith (Beastwars, Mermaidens, DARTZ) and pressed to blue vinyl by Holiday Records.

"I’m immensely proud of what we managed to produce in such a short period of time. We recorded the songs in 6 days, which was incredibly full on, but incredibly fun as well. I couldn’t have asked for a better producer for the album; Peter put his heart and soul into the session, and I’m forever grateful."

With the vinyl now pressed and five date tour of Aotearoa imminent Paterson reflects "It’s been over a year since the album has been completed, and I’m really excited that the time has finally come to put it out into the world."

To celebrate the release of their debut album With Love, K M T P, K M T P is traversing Aotearoa!

30/09 - Tāmaki Makaurau - Flying Out Instore

06/10 - Ōtautahi - Space Academy (Solo)

07/10 - Ōtepoti - Yours (Solo)

14/10 - Te Whanganui-a-Tara - Vogelmorn Hall

20/10 - Tāmaki Makaurau - Whammy Bar

Tickets are available now from Undertheradar.co.nz


Photo Credit: Frances Carter

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