Music Monday

I’ve been a fan of Mates of State for about a year now. As I learn more about them I become a bigger fan of theirs. For instance today I watched this story that ABC News did about the band. You see it turns out they are a married couple that make AWESOME music. They have two kids, and they don’t really want to stick them in daycare and be apart from them so they take both their kids with them on tour and to their shows. 

Enjoy™

More About Mates of State

“Considering the sort of cute overload your typical husband/wife music duo induces, Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel have done a commendable job establishing Mates of State as an original, inventive band rather than indie pop’s equivalent of a lolcat. While their mid-concert kissy faces and ubiquitous canoodling press shots would seem to depict their music strictly as a product of love’s labors, the duo’s most intriguing draw stems from their ingenuity, consistently setting off creative lightbulbs album-after-album despite a limiting drums/keys palette. Of course, that’s not to say the couple is impervious to the Sonny & Cher effect. With two newly-minted babies in two years, Gardner and Hammel must feel a rite of passage into parenthood is due, as Re-Arrange Us thoroughly redecorates the standard Mates of State sound.”

— Pitchfork’s album review of Mates of State: Re-Arrange Us