Jared Mees

Track Listing:
1.Suicide Squeeze
2.Him Her You Me
3.Loboito
4.Cockleburs & Hay
5.Moonlight & Timing
6. Panama Anthem
7.Live Fiction
8.Sodom & Glendora
9.Working & Drinking
10.The Strange Demise of Jerome Nobles
11.Its In The Way
12.Julai Throwback

Jared Mees
If you wanna swim with the sharks... (CD)
Hand Screenprinted 2nd edition.
$10 + $2 postage

The debut album from Portland songsmith Jared Mees is as much a linguistic journey as it is a sonic one. Songs about hard times, long nights, half full drinks and half alive friends. "If you wanna swim with the sharks...you gotta concentrate"was uttered to Mees by a homeless passerby one hot summer night in Hollywood and it lives on in these 12 poetic rockers.

RIYL: Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Okkervil River, Paul Simon


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CRITICAL PRAISE for If You Wanna Swim W/ The Sharks...

"Like Elvis Costello if he had grown up an American Stoner... If you wanna swim with the sharks... is fucking fantastic. Okkervil River and Kind of Like Spitting come to mind, but Swim With the Sharks is a hell of a lot more fun, what with all its bouncy rhythm and doubled vocals, its quick quips and tender touches."
-Willamette Week

"A distinctly Portland blend of lo-fi and high quality – pervades his new album, “If You Wanna Swim With the Sharks …”... These are songs for the morning after and the night before"
The Portland Tribune

"Packed full of irresistible melodies and clever turns of phrase…between the varied instrumentation and deliberate dashes of harmony Mees displays an impressive talent with composition and signs of greatness to come”
-harmoniummusic.com

If You Wanna Swim With the Sharks... is full of songs mixing highly palatable pop-punk and sincere and rambling indie-folk, with a wide-eyed exuberance...
-Indiefolkforever.blogspot.com

 

Jared Mees, singer/songwriter/artist/co-creator of Tender Loving Empire/bell-hop, spent his early years in the mountains of Colorado.  A love for music and the arts lured him to the smoggy underbelly of Los Angeles for college, where he earned two bachelor degrees and a wife-Brianne.  After a year and a half of wandering the globe, he and Brianne have decided to call Portland, Oregon “home.” 

Jared also enjoys the sunshine, a good conversation and cheap beer. 
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