PAWL is a singer/songwriter and arranger who defies categorization with every new release. PAWL is also a creative collaboration between friends who play music together. Together they dabble in indie pop, folk/jazz, rock, and hip hop. a singer/songwriter/ arranger who defies categorization with every new release. Dabbles in indie pop, folk/jazz, rock, hip hop, ambient, lo-fi. PAWL has been a part of many bands (Northpilot, the giveaway), and projects like RIFIFI, and GOL.life. As of 2024, PAWL has released 5 fully-produced Albums/EPs as well as 5 albums of Demo recordings (the first released in 2003). PAWL frequently collaborates with artists ttypes (aka ttttypes), DAN E.T., Landon Wordswell, etc. —> Mystic (2025 album) —->Water Rising EP (coming 2025) PAWL has released many demos and written/performed/recorded with many other artists (ttypes, Keeynote, FAMSQUAD, Northpilot, RIFIFI, Chris Blount, the blue ribbon glee club, Nicquoel, Bobby Made and the giveaway).
“Four complex indie pop tracks inspired by jazz, folk, rock, and life…worthy of addition to any indie or contemporary classic playlist.”
- The Daily Album. Nov. 30, 2013
The Future:
PAWL is working on Water Rising EP. This should see the light of day by early 2026. This is an EP featuring multiple hip-hop songs with live drums, bass, keyboards, and guitar. Multiple guest rappers and vocalists are featured, including Landon Wordswell. PAWL also contributed a few singer-songwriter tunes to this batch.
In addition, PAWL is teaming up with DAN E.T. in 2026 to record 2 really weird pop singles in Tempe, AZ.
The Past:
MYSTIC has been released (May 10, 2025)
The musicians behind indie outfits PAWL and ttypes have teamed up for the collaborative concept album MOTEL to be released Spring of 2020. Brothers Paul and Tim Krauss had an unusual childhood to say the very least, they were raised in a Midwest roadside motel and over the last decade they have been composing an album about that experience. It’s the stuff of American legends, which begs the question do artistic people create unusual lives or do unusual lives create artists?
There is no doubt that growing up around a small town oasis with recurring guests and an ever changing cast of characters will mold your perceptions of life and the world, and these brothers have put that upbringing to music, beautiful, catchy music. MOTEL is a near hour long summary of the years spend at the motor inn, the people and events that shaped them, and the growth that was forced upon them. It’s as much a coming of age story as it is a reflection in later life of the place they called home set to an Indie Pop backdrop that captivates the listeners attention from beginning to end.
In Nov, 2013, PAWL released Archetypes follow up: Modified Dreams.
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PAWL is in the final states of mixing a series of home recordings entitled “Modified Dreams Extended.” PAWL is in the midst of writing a collaborative album with ttypes entitled “Motel.” PAWL is continually collaborating with types on a series of new songs, writing and performing with the Gentlemen of Leisure, and contributing to various Hip Hop artists songs including FAMSQUAD, Chris Blount, and #MADE.
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In 2013, PAWL contributed keyboards and vocal samples to FAMSQUAD’s second and “break out” album “Lust of Money.” Notably, PAWL’s keyboards and vocals provide a backdrop for the single “Vegas Lights” In 2012, PAWL contributed backing vocals, development, mixing and production assistance to ttypes’ single “Empire Dance” which has been featured by comedian Lee Camp. 2011 PAWL released dream pop album “Archetypes.”
PAWL released Guest House in 2009
