Nashville based duo Austin Wilkinson and Elvis Craig of Jensen Sportag sat down with LINE since the release of their EP Pure Wet to talk about their “difficult easy listening” music, Nashville’s influence, and what they look forward to most this time of year.

LINE: Where are you currently?

JS: We divide our time between our live-in studio in Nashville which is basically two studios, two beds and a mouse; and Cottontown Wood which is a small forest preserve an hour north of Nashville that has been in the family for 5 generations. Right now Elvis is hard at work at the former and I the latter. We stay fairly aloof at either place, just more indoors at Nashville and outdoors at Cottontown.

LINE: How did the two of you come about starting Jensen Sportag together?

JS: Well we grew up together, but we didn’t have musical families (except a grandpa in a speakeasy jug band. True). Still we were music-obsessed as kids and tending toward the exotic and bizarre and difficult. We also grew up in non-internet, non-cable TV homes so we bonded really hard over discovering new bands and that quickly stuck us into our own lil world and different language. We both got synths and sequencers when we were around 14, and soon after started recording full songs individually.