It was about four years ago when the duo decided to stop working on their own individual projects and work together, but very quickly they each realized that they couldn't stand to work in the same room. For some reason though they could write and compose songs over email, sending ideas for melodies and lyrics back and forth until they could come to some kind of a truce.

"Whenever we have tried to write songs in the same room, it just self-destructs," Prudhomme told Radio.com. "The internet allows us to work in isolation and have complete thoughts without being interrupted by what the other person has to say."

Prudhomme admits that the reason it is so difficult for him and Donohue to work in the same space is their very different working styles. "Reese's approach to music making is very deliberate, very planned out. He likes to spend a lot more time figuring out what he's trying to do," Prudhomme explained. "And I'm a little more reckless."

Being just a few blocks away and later, after Donohue moved to San Francisco, over 2,000 miles away from each other, helped the guys see how well they balance each other out when they're allowed a little personal space. "In the same room it's hard because one person tends to mess up the other one's vibe," Prudhomme said. "One of us wouldn't be patient, or would be too patient."

While the guys' approach to making music is newfangled, their style is purely old-fashioned. The band's debut, Forever, is filled with psychedelic pop that sounds straight out of the '60s, the musical time period that the 23-year-old Prudhomme grew up listening to. "I had a teacher who had a Hits of the '60s record in third grade that she'd play everyday while we did busy work," he said, admitting that in high school he stopped listening to some of those hits, only to revisit them later when he got serious about songwriting.