Mike and Mandy share new EP

Mike and Mandy are the Los Angeles-based musical duo formed by two performing artists who met professionally while working on a Shakespeare play. After falling in love, traveling together and sharing their love of music, they married after three years and now combine their sonic talents on their collaborative project.

While multi-instrumentalist Mike was a ska and punk frontman and songwriter for five years, a reggae keyboardist as well as a drummer playing jazz, acid-jazz and funk styles, Mandy had a contrasting musical journey. She sang in musicals as well as with an Orchestra Children’s Chorus and an Opera Children’s Chorus while growing up in the heartlands of the USA, singing country and jazz standard and rock n’ roll music.

Together they blend their varying backgrounds and experience to compliment each other perfectly as Mike and Mandy, drawing on their shared love of the roots of American music. Over the last two years they’ve been sharing their work since the release of their debut single “Clancy Lowered the Boom” which they followed up with a string of charming songs throughout 2020 and 2021.

Now they bring us their first release of this year with the new EP of remastered works titled Shelter in Place. Featuring five of their timeless modern folk numbers, the EP recounts the story of the pandemic via songs that were all recorded at home during the lockdowns.

Sharing four of their original compositions that showcase their talents as songwriters, the EP is finished with a closing cover of “Lovesong” by The Cure. Throughout Shelter in Place, Mike and Mandy lay down their delightful dream pop folktronica style, full of delicate vocal work and piquant instrumentation to create an elegant and memorable listening experience.

Listen to Shelter in Place below