Mitten: Two Mittens, One Synth Sound

Two cannot become one unless it is done apart? Sort of. Joanna Katcher, half of Mitten says, "We've never written a song in the same room. Even though we live in the same city, we always e-mail ideas back and forth to each other.We both work best independently at the beginning of a song but rely on each other to see it through. We are a synth pop duo, definitely heavily influenced by The Postal Service, Depeche Mode, New Order, Bjork and 80's New Wave in general."

Maia Macdonald explained, "We drink an obscene amount of seltzer. We have found that you can do a lot of work on your own, without paying someone to help, including booking shows, promotion, press, recording, writing, touring and merchandise. Our music is a conversation with oneself, and the rest is made up of the things you want to say to someone, but don't necessarily verbalize. It's about relationships and people you love and cities you love and trying to be present, differentiating living in a memory vs living in the moment, vs living in a fantasy and all the good mess in between. There is a lot of love in the music."

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