That's My Idea

For Lily Konigsberg and Nate Amos, music has always been the plan. “I wrote a song in a pool in Florida when I was two”, explains Konigsberg, humming the melody over video chat, and Amos nods in agreement, “when I was four I wrote one called “like a cat” about how my girlfriend sleeps at the foot of the bed like a cat”. Though they’ve both been pulled toward songwriting since a young age, it’s a miracle they ever ended up doing it together. While Konigsberg is a Brooklyn lifer, Amos’ family bounced around from Colorado to Pennsylvania and eventually Vermont. At some point, he up and left to Chicago, looking for a change of scenery. “I was just bored, I still am,” he says of the decision, which might also explain the immense volume of recording projects (roughly 250) that he worked on during his four year stint there. Eventually he ended up in New York to start the avant pop band Water From Your Eyes, and before long, had crossed paths with Lily. After years performing with her experim