About Hearts of Animals: 
Mlee Marie has appeared on recordings by and collaborated with Young Mammals, The Mathletes (Joe Mathlete), and The Linus Pauling Quartet.  She also performs as the White Strips – a White Stripes tribute band – with artist/husband Chris Cascio.  She has had the honor of performing as part of a hand-picked ensemble of musicians to accompany Daniel Johnston for a performance in 2012.  She has also played with artists such as Fiery Furnaces, Casio Tone for the Painfully Alone, and Nat Baldwin (of Dirty Projectors).  Additionally she has performed at Free Press Summerfest in 2009 and as a showcasing artist at SXSW in 2008.

"There’s room for a little bit of everything in HOA, yet the music never feels like a kitchen-sink contrivance. Superb songcraft and a delicate touch allow her to create music that is at once astonishingly heavy and gossamer-light; under her spell, seemingly disparate concepts and styles play nicely with one another. Dense noise provides the perfect foil for power-pop sugar; cheaply effective Casio beats underscore stabbing waves of pseudo-shoegaze psychedelia. This is musical magical realism to turn Gabriel García Márquez green-eyed with envy.” — Nicholas L. Hall, Houston Press

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