Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, the indie-pop duo better know as Mates of State, presented three tunes from 'Rearrange Us' in our Los Angeles studio. Augmented by a small string section, the pair prove that their latest efforts are their most focused to date.

"This time around, we added a lot of things in the studio, which was sort of newer for us -- we are adding some string players and they also play guitar and some percussion here and there," Gardner tells Spinner. "In the past, what we've done to change the studio sound into the live sound is just turn the volume up. So, members, I guess -- members are volume."

The band's sound was not the only thing that has changed for the husband-and-wife musical duo in recent years. "We were in the studio one day finishing the record, the next we were in the hospital having a baby -- our second child," said Hammel, explaining the origin of the title 'Rearrange Us.'

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