Before long, he was writing his own songs – initially by dreaming up melodies and lyrics to instrumentals he'd found on YouTube, then creating originals on a guitar he'd been given for his ninth birthday.

Their music, meanwhile, is constantly surprising – full of shifting time signatures, needle-point guitar riffs and soaring melodies that are simultaneously odd and captivating.

He was working the graveyard shift at Harvey Aluminum in Torrance when the melody came to him.

In between Portland and Seattle, I had this melody in my head that I couldn't get out of my head.

Then, as the song’s melody went on uninterrupted, she tossed the object — seemingly a bracelet or necklace — aside and continued her performance.