Released April 20th, 2010 on Kilo Records

Thank You Family, Friends, Kilo.

All songs written by Stephen Paul Smoker.

Recorded in my living room and with Mitchell Cepaitis at Kilo Studios, Chicago, IL.

Produced by Stephen Paul Smoker

Mixed & Mastered by Mitchell Cepaitis of Kilo Records

Photography and make up by IshootRockstars.com

Cover Shot by Bethany DeGaetano-Smoker

Layout by Miles Benjamin

©2010 Stephen Paul Smoker and Kilo Inc.

ASCAP Kilo Creative Publishing

Catalog Number KR-009

Reinvention is not a term that Stephen Paul Smoker feels comfortable batting around, but the sundrenched melodies on his new album Violent Sun / Violent Fun sound of rebirth. It’s been a long, twisted road for singer/songwriter Smoker to arrive at a place where he feels completely comfortable expressing himself sonically and lyrically. The jangly pop and jaded wisdom of his songwriting meld into an anti Summer of Love album, where the blinding sun reveals that all that glitters is not gold.

A Lancaster, PA native, Smoker began his musical career at an early age, honing his craft in MewithoutYou and The Mint. Although he found commercial success with both bands, the Christian-themed projects didn’t fit Smoker’s personal and spiritual beliefs, and he longed for a new creative outlet. “I felt like a traveling salesman in those bands, selling a product and image I didn’t really believe in. ” After an amicable split, Smoker relocated to Chicago and holed up in his living room, tinkering with a drum machine and putting pen to paper for what would eventually become Violent Sun / Violent Fun.

Inspired by the rays cascading across the attic which doubled as his bedroom, Violent Sun / Violent Fun draws from the 60s psychedelia of The Kinks crossed with a no-frills, DIY take on indie pop. Infectious, ambitious and original, Stephen Paul Smoker is finally making music on his own terms.