Twenty-six songs. Twenty-six rooms. One very long story I'm finally ready to tell.
Act One drops November 20. Thirteen songs. Act Two is still behind the door.
The House
4 of 26 rooms openSee a light on? Somebody's home.
Chapter Four, Act One, Room 01
1994 called. She wants her song back.
I'm an introvert who loves performing. A rule follower with a rebellious streak. I crave routine, then get bored when things stay the same. Finding out I was AuDHD in my 40s explained a LOT. Including why I'd spent most of my music career trying to squeeze myself into a genre. Apparently, my brain didn't get the memo about picking a lane.
Country? Rock? Blues? Americana? Yes.
Too rock for country. Too country for rock. Sounds about right.
Release notes
From Kris
Turns out I wasn't too much. I was just more than one thing.
I know I say this about practically every song on the album, but this one really is one of my favorites. I wrote Walking Contradiction with Blue Foley and Payton Taylor, and it's my little rebellion against the idea that we have to pick a lane. In music or in life.
Kris
The recipe
A little Sheryl Crow, some funky country soul, crunchy guitars, and a healthy dose of 90s attitude. Stir vigorously.
Help it travel
I'm doing this whole independent artist thing at 43. Every listen, share and purchase helps more than you know.
Kris wants to know
Mine? An introvert who loves the stage. Your turn.
Just me and a guitar. Where most of these songs started.
Coming soon
From the sneak peek
Five songs, no instructions, no filter. Nobody was asked to be nice. Here's what came back.
Kris Bradley is the genuine article, proclaiming that the imperfections are the point of it all.A first listener
Healing country pop rock songs for the beautifully damaged soul.Stevie P.
Smooth like a porch swing with the swagger of a day on the lake.Allison
Country with teeth.A first listener
Like a real conversation with a good friend. Honest and vulnerable. And extremely well produced!Mich L.
Fuck genres. Do you, cause you're amazing at you.Jen J.
Badass, really funny, super well-written and relatable.A first listener
This one is already stuck in my head. This will be a hit.Cynthia S., on Babies Raising Babies in the 80's
Still in tears. Oof, that whole chorus. Powerful stuff.Jen J., on I Wonder What It's Like
Gen X nostalgia music that hits all the feels.Kealii
The lyrics are relatable and modern and the tunes are catchy as hell, and the delivery isn't predictable.Jen J.
Road-worn and lived-in, but somehow still fresh on its feet.Allison, on Walking Contradiction
They were asked to file it under a genre. They made up their own.
And who it reminded them of.
Shania Twain · Bonnie Raitt · Sheryl Crow · Lainey Wilson · Dolly Parton · The Chicks · Kacey Musgraves · Miranda Lambert · Reba McEntire · Jo Dee Messina · The Judds · Brandi Carlile · Shawn Mullins · Ani DiFranco · and five people who said she just sounds like herself.
Thirteen more songs drop November 20. Be first through the door.
Tell me the day it dropsEvery song has its own room in this house. When a song comes out, the light comes on and the door opens. Feel free to snoop around.
All the trying to fix it. Thirteen rooms. Doors open November 20.
Finding my way home. Still behind the door. We'll turn the lights on when it's time.
The front door opens when the whole record is out. Let me know when the next room opens
These are real cards.
Every room has a printed Aftermath Card. Art on the front, the story and a QR code to the room on the back. The full deck of 29 is on the merch table, and one comes tucked in every order.
Get the deckCome on in. We've got cards, a personality quiz, and apparently I've hidden guitar picks all over the house.
Where should I play next?
Tell me where you're listening from and a porch light comes on in your town. The brightest towns get the first shows. First one to 50 lights gets a date.
Or bring the music to you
Music for people who have lived long enough to stop pretending.
Hey friend,
I've spent over twenty years in music, but most of that time I was behind the scenes. Producing records, writing songs for other artists, and getting really good at making everybody else's vision come to life.
At some point, I walked away from my own music to help other people chase their dreams. I built a successful music education company and helped thousands of musicians make music of their own.
The business was a success. My nervous system had a slightly different opinion. 🫠
Burnout took me out for almost three years. And I don't mean I needed a vacation. I mean the lights went out. I couldn't create, couldn't think straight, and started wondering if the part of me that made music was ever coming back.
Not because the first thing failed. It actually worked. I just couldn't keep being the person I had to become to make it work.
So I sold the company.
And at 43, I found myself doing something I hadn't done in a very long time.
Making music just because I wanted to.
No briefs. No clients. No trying to figure out what people wanted to hear. I finally got the courage to tell my story.
Apparently, I had some things to get off my chest.
Twenty-six songs, to be exact.
I'm calling myself a beginner again, but not because I'm new to music. I'm new to putting myself in it. My own songs. My own voice. No tuning it into somebody else's idea of perfect. No sanding down the weird parts because they don't fit a genre.
I'm still ambitious. I still have big dreams. I just don't believe I need to set myself on fire to make them happen anymore.
And that's how Midnight Church Aftermath came to be.
Twenty-six songs. Two acts. Act One is all the trying to fix it. Act Two is finding my way home.
I built a little house for the whole thing, gave every song its own room, and I'm opening the doors one at a time.
Make yourself at home. 🧡
Love, Kris
From the desk
The longer version of all this, one post at a time. Burnout, the voice I had to grow into, and what it's like to start over on purpose.
Oct 28, 2026 · Latest
The Art of Being a Walking Contradiction
On being AuDHD, making genre-mutant music, and finally giving up on fitting into boxes.
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Oct 22, 2026The Voice I Had to Grow IntoToo old, too raspy, too classic. And finally mine.
Oct 12, 2026Renovate Me: When Trying to Fix Yourself Becomes a Full-Time JobThe story behind my Act One closer, and the 71 people who sang on it.
Sep 23, 2026"But You're So Organized": My Flavor of NeurodivergenceADHD, autism, twice exceptional, and why the color-coded calendar is the tell.
Jul 20, 2026I never wanted to be an artist, and that was a lieA midlife comeback story for anyone wondering if the part of them they buried is still in there.Want the whole story in your hands? The Deluxe double disc, the book and the cards.
Get first dibs on the shopEvery song leaves a little something behind. I threw it all in a shoebox. Pick something up and see what story comes with it.
Go ahead. Pick something up and turn it over.
Behind the record
Nobody makes a 26-song record alone. These two were in the room for all of it.
Producer, engineer and co-writer. Eric runs The Couch Room in Nashville, where every song on this record was mixed. If it sounds like a band in a room, that's because it was one, and Eric was at the board.
My closest co-writer, one of my closest friends, and the other producer on the record. Blue and I wrote more than half of these 26 songs together, a lot of them late at a kitchen table. He's the reason a few of these songs exist at all.
Writer, singer, producer. I've been producing since my 20s, mostly for other people. This is the first record where I only had to answer to the songs.
The band: Aksel Coe, drums and percussion. Steve Mackey, bass. Rob McNelley, electric guitar. Shaun Richardson, acoustic guitar. John Henry Trinko, keys. Mastered by Sam Moses. Recorded in Tennessee at Dark Horse Recording in Franklin and The Couch Room in Nashville.
Hear what we made in that room. Out now, everywhere.
Listen to Walking ContradictionTwenty-six songs. One big, winding road. From trying to fix everything to finally finding my way home. The fog clears a little more with every release.
There are things hidden on this map. Thirteen threads where something I say in one room comes back in another, a few eggs, and at least one secret I'm not telling you about. Happy hunting.
It's a real map too
A gatefold you can unfold on the kitchen table. Act One is drawn in. Act Two stays under the fog until the whole record is out, so you can hunt the threads with a pencil instead of a mouse.
Get the Deluxe and the mapAct One drops November 20. Act Two isn't coming to streaming until 2027. The only way to hear the whole story is to bring the record home.
The one that has everything
$35signed · shipped from Maui · download included
All 26 songs, both acts, on two discs. Signed by me, and the digital download of the whole record is yours the minute you order. No waiting on the mail to hear Act Two.
Every Deluxe comes with:
$2064-page printed book
The story behind every song, every lyric, and the people I wrote them with. A CD case holds the songs. It can't hold what happened around them. This is everything I couldn't fit in the box.
$25the full deck of 29 · tap a card to flip it
Twenty-six songs plus three bonus cards, jumbo size, printed front and back. Scan the back of any card and it takes you to the story behind that room.
The shop opens soon. Want first dibs?
Leave me your email and I'll give you a holler when the next room opens.
Tap the card to turn it over