Mother Mother

Mother Mother is a Canadian indie rock band originally from Heriot Bay, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The band consists of Ryan Guldemond on guitar and vocals, Molly Guldemond on vocals and keyboard, Jasmin Parkin on keyboard and vocals, and Ali Siadat on drums. Longtime bassist Jeremy Page left the band in 2016.

In 2005, they independently released their self-titled debut album under the band name Mother. They later changed their name to Mother Mother, and re-released the album on Last Gang Records in 2007. Retitled Touch Up, the reissue also featured several new songs.

The band's second album, O My Heart, was released on September 16, 2008; their third album, Eureka, was released on March 15, 2011;^[2] their fourth album, The Sticks, was released on September 18, 2012; and their fifth album, Very Good Bad Thing was released on November 4, 2014, with an American release of April 7, 2015, on Def Jam Recordings.

History

The band began in Heriot Bay in January 2005, when guitarist and vocalist Ryan Guldemond was at music school and wanted to start a band based on vocal-driven pop songs.^[3] He recruited his sister Molly along with a friend from college, Debra-Jean Creelman, to accompany his own vocals for the songs he had written, and the trio played as an acoustic act before adding drummer Kenton Loewen and bassist Jeremy Page.

Ryan Guldemond

The five members started off playing under the name Mother, and in the fall of 2005, they independently released a self-titled album. This debut album was recorded with Howard Redekopp, who had also worked with the New Pornographers and Tegan and Sara. When the Vancouver Province rated Mother as one of the top five BC bands to watch for in 2007, they began to receive acclaim for their debut album. Shortly thereafter, Mother landed a nationally broadcast concert opening for K'naan and the Wailin' Jennys. In the summer of 2006, they opened for the Australian band the Cat Empire at the sold-out Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Later that year, they made their debut in central Canada at the Montreal International Jazz Festival on June 29 as well as in Toronto on July 1, Canada Day, at the Harbourfront Centre.^[4][5]

In October 2006, after playing a set at the Pop Montreal festival, Mother met with Last Gang Records and later signed a four-album contract. At that point the label encouraged the band to change their name to avoid legal issues, so rather than changing it completely they decided to simply rename themselves Mother Mother. On February 20, 2007, the band re-released its debut album under the new name, renaming the album Touch Up and including two new songs, as well as artwork and overdubs different from the original.

Molly Guldemond (left) and Jasmin Parkin (right) perform for British Columbia Day at Deer Lake Park on August 3, 2009.

The band released their second album, O My Heart, in 2008. Later that year, on December 3, it was announced that Debra-Jean Creelman had left Mother Mother;^[6] on January 26, 2009, the band announced the addition of a new singer/keyboardist, Jasmin Parkin.

Mother Mother's third album, Eureka, was released on March 15, 2011.^[2] The album's lead single, "The Stand",^[2] entered the Canada Singles Top 100 chart in May 2011 and peaked during that week at position 76.^[7] The album prompted a reviewer at the Toronto Star to describe the band as "evolving into orchestral harmonies and hip hop-influenced power ballads, as if Adam Lambert had joined The Dirty Projectors".^[8]

On January 9, 2012, Kraft Foods launched a series of television commercials featuring the song "Bright Idea".^[9]

Mother Mother's fourth album, The Sticks, was released on September 18, 2012.^[10] It contains 14 tracks and was co-produced by the band frontman Ryan Guldemond and producer Ben Kaplan.^[10] The first single, "Let's Fall in Love", was released on July 17.^[10] They just performed this original song on their Canadian tour in 2012, playing in hometown Vancouver on December 19.

In 2014 the band signed with Universal Music Canada to produce their fifth album, Very Good Bad Thing, which was released on November 4, 2014. The first single from the album, "Get Out The Way" was released on July 15, 2014.^[11]

2016, Mother Mother are scheduled to play for the City of Brampton, Ontario's New Year's festivities.

November 24, 2016 the band announced their Canadian No Culture Tour. Their tour begins in New Brunswick in February 2017 and ends in British Columbia at the end of March 2017.^[12]

February 10, 2017 their latest album No Culture will be released.

Line Up

Discography

Albums

Singles

Videography

• "Touch Up" (2007)
• "O My Heart" (2008)
• "Body Of Years" (2009)
• "Hayloft" (2009)
• "The Stand" (2011)
• "Baby Don't Dance" (2011)
• "Let's Fall in Love" (2012)
• "Bit By Bit" (2012)
• "Get Out The Way" (2014)
• "Monkey Tree" (2014)
• "Modern Love" (2015)
• "The Drugs" (2016)

Covers

• Nickel Creek: A Dotted Line (track 5)

References

External links

• Official website
• Mother Mother on Twitter