Husband and wife team Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner make sugary-sweet indie-pop with joyous harmonies creating a feeling not entirely dissimilar to spinning around really, really fast in the sun.

On Moshi Moshi in the UK.

Releases

• Like U Crazy - single, out 13/11/2006 on Moshi Moshi Music. (post review)
• Bring It Back (UK version) - album, out 18/09/2006 on Moshi Moshi Music. (post review)
• Fraud in the 80s - single, out 21/08/2006 on Moshi Moshi Music. 1 review (read/post)
• Bring It Back - album, out 21/03/2006 on Barsuk. (post review)
• All Day EP - ep, out 24/01/2005 on Polyvinyl. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Tue 24 Oct at London Kings College London (KCLSU). 1 review (read/post)
• Wed 17 May at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms. (post review)

News

• 16/04/2008: Mates of State's entourage increases as album number five is readied
• 06/07/2007: Mates Of State, Clap Your Hands and more for Dour
• 06/07/2007: Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival: full line-up announced
• 01/05/2007: Dour update: Mates Of State out, Simian Mobile Disco in...
• 14/11/2006: New OC compilation: actually pretty good!
• 22/08/2006: Mates Of State Bring It Back next month
• 21/08/2006: It's Monday, I'm hungry... for some CHART news
• 07/04/2006: The New Pornographers get some Mates

Features

• 06/07/2007: Iceland Airwaves 2006: Bands
• 21/12/2006: DiS's interviews of 2006: DiScoveries, heavy-hitters and silly Some Questions
• 08/11/2006: A Month In Records: October 2006
• 24/10/2006: Mates Of State: "What we do isn't normal"

Links

• matesofstate.com - Official site.

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