Cam Horvath and Zach Hollenback have been making music together for a long time. Since eighth grade the two have collaborated together on project after project. Though Cam is mostly working on his solo project, Wallison Grommet, and Zach are getting the most of his project, "Drive Me Home Please," the two still live together and have time to jam and collaborate. Not that distance stops the pair from working.

When the two graduated high school and left for different schools they continued to make music together over email. Normally this sort of move is the last dying breaths of a soon to collapse project, but that's not the case for Cam and Zach, who act like it was absolutely nothing. "The sound quality was pretty awful. but other than that it wasn't particularly hard," they tell me as I sit and quietly nom on the homemade banana bread I have been graciously provided.

Unless Cam and Zach were conjoined twins prior to their arrival in college it doesn't seem like the distance weakened the connection between the two. The pair exudes a certain type of comfort around each other. There's an ease of motion and communication that can only come from years of collaboration and learning exactly what your friend is trying to tell you without saying anything at all. When expressed through their art this is beautiful. When expressed in person it's also beautiful.

Seeing old friends interact and bounce off each other is one of the rarest pleasures in life. Little glimpses of a hidden language we as voyeurs will never be able to understand fully. There is something beautiful and tragic in that knowledge, and there is something beautiful and tragic in the music that the pair makes together.

This seems to come mostly from Hollenback, who, although when questioned says he's pretty analytical reads like more of the emotional core of the duo than Horvath, who certainly seems like the conventional analytic brains of the pair if one can really only divide things in half.

Though Horvath tells me he's recently been having a hard time expressing himself emotionally, we both concede that there is a certain beauty to attempting to express your own thoughts and emotions through other people's words, as he does with the sample driven tunes of Wallison Grommet.

But Horvath and Hallenback's creative relationship implies that maybe there is more than this simple brains/heart, Lennon/McCartney dichotomy narrative that forms in popular culture. Both are intellectual, both are thoughtful in their behavior, and both seem equally invested in the emotional quality of not only themselves but each other and those around them. If you want to see two best friends work together not to complete each other, as the narrative so often is, but to heighten each other and create something new and beautiful by communicating in the way only two very old friends can check out this link here