Mother Mother is a Canadian indie rock band based on Quadra Island, British Columbia. The band consists of Ryan Guldemond on guitar and vocals, Molly Guldemond and Jasmin Parkin on vocals and keyboard, Ali Siadat on drums, and Mike Young on bass.
Longtime bassist Jeremy Page left the band in 2016.
members: Ryan Guldemond, Molly Guldemond
formed in: Quadra Island
labels: Universal Music Group
genres: indie rock
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The band began in Heriot Bay, British Columbia in January 2005, when guitarist and vocalist Ryan Guldemond was at music school and wanted to start a band based on vocal-driven pop songs. He recruited his sister Molly along with a friend from college, Debra-Jean Creelman, to accompany his own vocals for the songs he had written, and the trio played as an acoustic act before adding drummer Kenton Loewen and bassist Jeremy Page.
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"Hayloft", later re-released as "Hayloft I", is a 2008 song by Canadian indie rock band Mother Mother. It is the eighth song from their second studio album, O My Heart.
The song tells the story of two young lovers unsuccessfully attempting to hide from the armed father of one of the pair. It did not find commercial success upon release, but attracted attention twelve years later from users on TikTok.
"Hayloft" was composed by Mother Mother's vocalist and songwriter, Ryan Guldemond. He started the piece with the song's guitar riff, writing the next few pieces of the song with the intention of phonetically fitting the words to the "angular melody" rather than constructing a complete story, leading to lyrics like "my daddy's got a gun". The finished version, 45 seconds after the guitar introduces the song, narrates the story of a young person hiding in their hayloft with their lover. The song ends with the father appearing with his gun, the story ending inconclusively.
"Hayloft" did not break into wide circulation upon release in O My Heart – while it received some radio play, it did not make an impression on wider audiences then and there. However, in 2020, the song became a larger success, primarily due to attention on TikTok, a social media platform. By the first week of August 2020, "Hayloft" had amassed 100,000 streams, in total, across all streaming platforms; by October, the song was pulling in 1 million streams every week. It also became the band's most-streamed track.