M Coast

Marshmallow Coast
Genres	Indie Rock
Years active	1997-Present
Labels	Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records Kindercore Records Spare Me Records Pickled Egg Records Misra Records
Associated acts	Elf Power of Montreal
Members	Andy Gonzales Derek Almstead Sara Kirkpatrick Jim Hix Steven Trimmer

Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records Kindercore Records Spare Me Records Pickled Egg Records

Andy Gonzales Derek Almstead Sara Kirkpatrick Jim Hix

Marshmallow Coast (formerly M Coast) is an indie pop band associated with the Elephant Six Collective.

The band began as a solo recording project of singer/songwriter Andy Gonzales, who first recorded as Marshmallow Coast in 1996 with a self-released cassette, which featured contributions from Joel Richardson of The Minders. After a split single release, Gonzales met up with old friend and Neutral Milk Hotel member Julian Koster to record Timesquare. While it was recorded in 1997, it did not get released until 2000 due to various label disputes.

Gonzales, after releasing some more singles, dropped the Marshmallow Coast project temporarily to tour with Music Tapes, Koster's side project, and relocate to Athens, GA in 1997. In Athens, Gonzales met with Kevin Barnes and Derek Almstead, singer/songwriter and bassist/ engineer, respectively, of the relatively new Of Montreal. With Barnes, Gonzales recorded Marshmallow Coast's second album, 1999's Seniors & Juniors, and became a member of Of Montreal himself. The other members of the band became his backing band for a couple singles including the split with Of Montreal and with My First Keyboard.

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