Latency Magazine

The first question is kind of obvious, but how/when did you meet?Well, Josh and I met through a friend when we were thirteen so that was sevenyears ago this past October.Aw, networking at a young age! And when did you both startworking together professionally?[laughs] I guess you could call it that! I suppose we started working togetherprofessionally in our first band, Sounds Children Make when we were fourteen.That sounds cute and profound all at the same time.Are you guys a couple or just partners?Well... we’re a couple... of partners.So do you both have backgrounds in musical theater or just Elanna?Elanna definitely has MORE experience in musical theater but shortly after wemet, the Stockholm Syndrome kicked in. like a good “Mormon,” Elanna was justdoing her musical theater duties by converting anyone who got within a 5-footradius of her. Josh has also been known to work backstage.Well as musical theater artists we do take a pledge to convert the masses. So,why electropop? Some would put that genre in the complete opposite end of themusical spectrum to theater.Although whatever genre people may classify us in may seem far from themusical theater realm just in a sense of the basic sound, we’ve definitely broughtthe theatricality that we learned from doing theater into our music. We also tendto focus on melodic themes and storytelling which are both characteristics ofmusical theater. So the two may not be as separate as one may think.That’s understandable but to be honest it doesn’t really answer myquestion...Our music takes the influences of the lyrical side of musical theater (the storyand plot if you will) and expresses it in the form of electronic music. Just as astring and horn section would embellish the storyline in a musical, electronicmusic is the medium that we chose to tell our stories.Okay. How do you guys feel about being compared to bands likeThe Postal Service and Depeche Mode and being described as“inhabiting post human musical environments” and having“an allergy to funk?”14 LATENCY MARCH + APRIL 2013