Madam Bandit new single portrays the experience of isolation

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The family we are born into often shapes our lives more than we think. It’s like a coat of paint on a delicately filled canvas, slowly adding brushstroke after brushstroke to a coarser picture.

Madam Bandit grew up the 8th of 9 children in the Redwoods on the coast of Northern California in a strictly religious family that belonged to an American-Christian sect. While faith is supposed to be something deeply personal and private, from which a person can draw incredible strength, the goal cannot be to impose one’s exemplified purpose in life on another person. And Mindy also felt the ever-increasing contradiction between what she wanted and fulfilling her religious duties. In her early 20s she is already a mother of 2 sons. And bit by bit she has started to work out worked out her existence and that a big part of it is the love for music. Under her names Mindy Gledhill she has successfully released music, appeared in TV shows and celebrated many successes such as performing as guest vocal for DJ Kaskade.

With her new project as Madam Bandit she has opened a new chapter in her life. A chapter where she works off topics that are incredibly important to her. In her latest single she sings about her hard time during the pandemic. The moments of isolation, emptiness, fear, and the difficulties. An epic important song, that has also touched us a lot subject wise. Because those aspects absolutely belong in the public eye and must be spoken about more openly. The mental illnesses have increased enormously during this time, and so often you have the feeling that this is forgotten. Embedded in pop-electro tones mixed with a melancholic touch “Punctured Lungs” is a truly beautiful piece about the hard experience of isolation and depression during Covid.

She explains to us: “I remember watching my frosted breath one night during the most isolating and uncertain periods of the Pandemic. I felt small under numberless stars in an infinite universe collapsing in on me. In that moment, dying sounded more comforting than living. Before the Pandemic hit, I was already deconstructing the Mormon faith of my youth. Everything I thought I knew and previously believed was no longer true for me and putting together a new framework for how to live my life proved extremely difficult and taxing. Forging a new path for myself was also necessary. The isolation I felt leaving my former close-knit community was intense; the Pandemic added another layer on top, a palpable knife to the chest. That was the first time in my life I sought medical intervention for depression. “Punctured Lungs” was written from that experience. I am far from alone in having experienced profound isolation and depression during Covid. “Punctured Lungs” speaks to anyone who has literally and figuratively struggled to breathe through the last couple of years.”

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