Artist: Mates of State
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Team Boo
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Kori Gardner (keyboard/vocals) and Jason Hammel (drums/vocals) were both playing guitar and vocalizing in the Kansas music city of Lawrence before forming the Mates of State in 1997. With their treble vocal harmonies and minimal pop invoke, Omnibus Records released Mates of State's number 1 EP as a split with Fighter D in 1999. Upon a relocation to San Francisco, the duo's arcsecond EP, It's the Law/Invitation Inn, and a debut studio apartment feat, My Solo Project, followed in 2000. Tours of the Midwest followed into the side by side year and creative ideas continued to eddy. Hammel and Gardner, wHO were married in early 2001, inked themselves a dole out with Polyvinyl prior to recording a reexamination. Summer years were exhausted playacting shows with Superdrag, the Anniversary, and Beulah patch composition songs on the road. Those roger Huntington Sessions lead to the second record album, Our Constant Concern, in 2002. The side by side give Polyvinyl reissued their debut album, My Solo Project, and later on the full-length Team Boo. After their contract was up with Polyvinyl (termination with the 2004 EP All Day), Mates of State decided to head all over to Barsuk, the label that released their fourth part record, Bring It Back, in 2006.
