As the Philadelphia City Paper wrote, 'The most remarkable thing about the Method and Result is not their snazzy, beeping background noises or eccentric, machine-made polyrhythms. No, the real trick is that this Philly duo utilizes a small junkyard of machines and looping tricks to create such robotic beats and still comes off human.'
The focus on songwriting is clear on The Things You Miss , which was co-released by The Losing Blueprint and KiraKira Disc Records in March 2004. On this EP, the duo of Megan Wendell and Mason Wendell meld vocals, electric guitars, upright bass, and Rhodes piano with homemade sound recordings made by everything from office supplies, to saxophones, to the organic sounds produced by a Kentucky cave.
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The music is strong and sounds highly Chicago-influenced; often the riffs flow in angular David Grubslike melodic rivulets through backdrops of well-constructed mood-inducing loops and samples. - Village Voice
"This duo is as unexpected as they are grounded, building elusive atmospheres out of found sounds and unrecognizable synths even while they're catchy and, frankly, poetic. For a debut EP, The Things You Miss is unstoppable." Splendid
Rather than building tracks conventionally from the ground up, most treat [the] vocals as a stabilizing nucleus around which diverse instruments and melodic patterns swirl, her singing the glue that prevents the sprawling music from splintering apart what distinguishes 'The Things You Miss' isthe original approach to song construction. - Grooves Magazine