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Songwriters Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak have a pact, a devotion to each other and to the music of @.

In their solo existence, Victoria works as a beekeeper and Stone as a self-taught computer programmer, but when they get together, they become a singular, avant-garde songforce. The East Coast house-show circuit first brought them into each other's orbit. Y. R. Visit).

Over time, the two began collaborating long distance, and soon developed the @ formula - half Victoria songs, half Stone songs, with each filling in the cracks of the other's compositions.

On their new album Autosmile, the band's first with the legendary indie label 4AD, @ have harnessed their unique process to reimagine the psychedelic folk tradition as an undeniably contemporary artform.

@ are a coalition, a team, a two-headed cat, and their collaboration has led them, onceagain, to fascinating and timeless results.

The mysterious channels of the internet brought the songs of @'s first album, Mind Palace Music, into the lives of a much larger audience than Victoria and Stone had ever encountered.

The album's organic success story is miraculous considering the aggressively un-searchable nature of their deliberately obtuse moniker. Before their debut album, @ had never played live or even sung a harmony together in person. The collaborations were entirely distanced.

In the years that followed, @ figured out how to have a band practice, how to perform this music for audiences of all sizes, how to sing together in shared air, and how to make eachother laugh on stage with absurdist guitar-god solos.