Growing up among the coastal redwoods of Northern California, Madam Bandit was the 8th of 9 children. Music was a big part of everyday life for her family, devout members of an early American Christian cult. As a teen bride, she was encouraged to make motherhood her first priority, though she felt a certain dissonance between that teaching and her inner desire to become a singer songwriter. Determined to carry out her religious duties and also her dreams, she set out to make both happen. By the age of 22, she already had two sons and was recording her first album. That determination led to multiple successful indie albums under her given name, Mindy Gledhill, including placements with major brands and TV shows, tens of millions of plays on streaming platforms and YouTube as well as four guest-artist features with Grammy nominated EDM superstar, Kaskade.
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Madam Bandit’s new project sees her coming out of a period of faith deconstruction and into the creation of an electro pop alter ego. Her music explores themes of sexual liberation and feminism. From big, tongue-in-cheek tracks like “Punch You In the Face” and “At the Disco” to the darker parts of learning to breathe again after loss in “Punctured Lungs” and the melancholy fantasy confessional “Lie to Me.”