It was time to grow up, or so Jonah Oryszak thought. At the age of 20, Oryszak, a college drop out from Canton, Ohio, had found himself couch surfing from crusty musician house to crusty musician house for the greater part of his early adulthood, working two days a week and partying seven. “It got old fast,” he says. In 1998, Oryszak had decided to move out of his parents’ house in Canton, where he’d learned to love everything from Nick Drake to Roxy Music to old soul 45s, and move to Cleveland to pursue his own sounds. Still, he always looks back on his parents being his true rock and roll masters. “My mom would always make mix tapes for my dad,” he says. “So, when I was like five, I would try to do it myself. I had this little tape recorder and I’d put it up to a speaker and make comps like that.” Once in Cleveland, Oryszak soaked himself in the local underground scene, filling his time with house shows and record collecting. He also met Jay Tousley, a kid from West Park whose attention was too short to listen to albums, but just right to create the perfect pop hooks on guitar a la Johnny Marr. It was a perfect fit – Oryszak, a well-versed songsmith, who’d lay down the structure upon which Tousley could, simply, get weird. “Jay is strange because he doesn’t listen to music at all,” Oryszak says. "It’s something that everyone makes fun of him for…but that’s it. That’s why Jay and I played so well together – I always liked pop, strong hooks, and that’s what Jay just writes these off the wall quirky pop parts. He plays guitar like someone who has never played before.