Mushpot Records and Publicity

Aaron Leck was lonesome. In his bedroom late at night he would record half-drunk songs about anxiety attacks and missing love.  He longed for someone to make music with him.

Melinda Tracy had finally graduated college and was back home for a summer before she was going to move to Europe to focus on her comics and art.  She met up with Aaron and the two of them sat in a hot bedroom in Portland slurping on giant Slurpees and pondering what they could do with their last summer together.  Music was the obvious answer and The Jellyfish Bandits was the obvious band name (combining your favorite animal with your favorite occupation is always the best way to create a band name).   

Over the next three months Aaron played rackety guitar power chords with Melinda as she bleeped and blooped lovely melodies while dodging the old Yamaha keyboard’s broken key.  They sang in boy-girl harmonies about their favorite things: ghosts, the ocean, love and plastic vampire teeth.  By August they had recorded twelve lo-fi electro pop tracks inspired by their favorite bands such as “The Unicorns” and “Half-Handed Cloud”.  The two worked right up until the night before Melinda’s departure where they burned several CD-R’s of their summer project and slipped them into homemade covers decorated by a bat with rhinestone eyes.  The next morning they sadly said their goodbyes and Melinda left to Europe forever…

…Well it felt like forever.  She missed her family, The Jellyfish Bandits, and maybe (just a little) Aaron Leck, so she booked a flight back home.  The band was reunited!  During her absence The Jellyfish Bandit’s music had bounced around the Internet, was talked about on some music blogs and (through MySpace) ended up in the hands of Mushpot’s Remy Netwon.

Bat in the Blowhole is coming soon!

Check out what the blogger elite have to say:

“‘Nobody likes The Jellyfish Bandits, except for you, except for you’, sings Aaron Leck and Melinda Tracy on the opening track titled ‘Famous Art Thieves’… That statement is clearly untrue, because I love them! Their DIY lo-fi pop is just about as infectious as anything I have heard over the past six months, and numerous Jellyfish Bandits songs have stuck in my head for days on end.” -EINSTIEN MUSIC JOURNAL

“I’m kind of [in] love with the Jellyfish Bandits…The Pacific Northwest two-piece toy with the sound of Matt & Kim and Half-handed Cloud, while embodying the spirit of a stripped-down Architecture in Helsinki.” -CONFESSIONS OF A WOULD-BE HIPSTER

“The Jellyfish Bandits deliver box fresh minimalist electro pop using a random selection of instruments and objects from the standard electro keyboards to spoons and ‘jingling keys’ that recalls the lo-fi pop experimentalism of The Unicorns. They modestly describe their sound as “a bat stuck in a whale’s blowhole screeching for help” but don’t let that put you off as it’s more like a couple of popstrels throwing a casio round a well equipped garage.”-THE DEVIL HAS THE BEST TUNA

“Atop the delightfully coo’s and aah’s, there’s the slyly sun shiny radiating boy / girl harmonies and ridiculously catchy though child like keys braids to bask and bathe your listening experience.”-LOSING TODAY MAGAZINE