Via YouTube? No. We met online at Starbucks. I was like, Oh, your latte looks just like mine? We’re probably soul mates. So we were like, let’s get together and write some songs! At first, we were trying to do a really lo-fi, like chill-wave sound, and then I came in with a song I wrote (“Mirrors in the Moonlight”), and he took that, stripped everything but the vocals, and made “Fear of Love” and we were like, wow…we can do pop. We put out the single, and then “Walk on By” came along, then we put out the EP.
Are you an independent artist? Yeah. I don’t have a label or a manager.
Do you like that? Yeah. I mean, eventually, we’re going to need a manager a manager will be necessary, because it’s a lot of work to handle business and I’d like to put all my focus on creating.
Are you performing yet? Not yet. We’re just finishing the next album right now, which is a full-length. It kind of blows the other stuff away. We’ll be done with that soon, and then I’ll start preparing to perform.
Tell me about the songwriting process. What comes first for you, the lyrics or the melody? How do you build a song? Usually the melody. We’ll just be in headphones, playing in our instruments. And Micky will start playing something or I’ll start singing…and then I’ll just say random lyrics. But sometimes I’ll be sitting with my guitar and I’ll come up with a full song, just there. It’s always different.
What are your inspirations for writing songs? A lot of my songs have been about family issues, nature is reoccurring theme, and, of course, relationships.
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