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The official announcement video - Please share it with people who like joy!



Hello!
First of all, I want to thank you for your awesomeness.
Second, I want to tell you that the brand new Todd McHatton record came out today, September 21st, 2011!
This new record is called "Galactic Champions of Joy".

It's available for download right here, right now:
http://toddmchatton.bandcamp.com/

Or, get a shiny new disc here:
https://www.createspace.com/1983024

Just like my previous album Sundays at the Rocket Park, the new album has some more songs about some irksome animals:
There's more hippos and birds, and also some bears and stuff.
I've also got songs about stars, a tree house, a super towel, and those kinds of things.
Once again, I've included a couple of mushy love songs for my wife because she's awesome and I love her.
If you're going.. "who is this guy and how do I know that he's actually awesome?" - well, my last record, Sundays at the Rocket Park, was picked as one of the Top 10 Albums of 2010 by Time Out New York Kids!
So, at least one other person outside of my immediate family liked it.
It's dense, graceful, layered, psychedelic pop for the whole family.

I am very proud of this new record and I hope you enjoy it.

I can send you other things as well if you like but seriously, this is just about the coolest stuff I've got to offer at the moment.

Thank You Again,

Todd McHatton

Reports From the North Pole.mp3

To have Todd McHatton / Sundays at the Rocket Park included on Time Out New York Kids List of Best Kids Albums of 2010 with so many phenomenally great artists is absolutely overwhelming.
As those of you who've been visiting here over the last several years know, this has been a total, absolute blast - writing songs, drawing pictures and comics, publishing my first book - all completely and exclusively for the fun. joy, and entertainment it provides me and my family - and look what's happened, we got an audience!
I don't think I've ever done a mchatton.com update without a brand new tune attached to it but I just really really wanted to thank Jeff Bogle at OWTK and TimeOut New York Kids in a really big way... pure and simple. I absolutely love making music and it is so incredibly gratifying to know that so many more people are hearing it now. I had actually been struggling with the idea of having to incorporate anything "business like" into all of this fun - publicity, advertising, networking, sales, merchandising, etc. The idea of messing up all this fun with all that... well, "work" was not really part of the original dream.
Because of people like Jeff Bogle, Amberly Warnke over at Pied Piper Radio/Ages 3 and Up, Dave Loftin over at the Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl, and Bill Childs over at Spare the Rock Spoil the Child I've been given the opportunity to continue focusing on the joyful stuff and they've brought more of you here for me to share it with. Thank You SO MUCH!
Since this is a big brag and thanks I should also mention that 2 Songs from the album also made OWTK's Favorite 50 Kindie Songs of 2010 and the artwork made the list as one of OWTK's Top 15 Kindie Album Art/CD Covers of 2010 !
Get Sundays at the Rocket Park on CD here.
Get Sundays at the Rocket Park download here.
There's a whole lot more fun on the way this month and some big projects for 2011... stay tuned!