A lot of them are three-part harmonies, where Jason's singing low, I'm singing middle, and Andy's singing high. And now it seems to be coming naturally to us, where somebody will bring in a song and we'll all pick a part, and nobody will have to write anything. I think it's really cool to hear something that's a little more outside, yet still accessible. Like some of Jason's songs that are a little bit quirkier. Murach's and Kleinberg's songs also share a feeling of wistfulness that sometimes borders on the unabashedly sentimental.
Shadows sway like daydreams that come true.
You could write a song and mask it behind all kinds of stuff that nobody can understand, and they can get whatever they want out of it. So I was talking about this idea, and Jason said he wanted to go, too, and so we took a couple weeks and drove to those cities. Along the way we had a mandolin in the car and were learning a lot of the music we were coming across. After the pair got home, they began to write new songs and formed 86. And that's why we sound like a band.