The Kick couldn't “Wish 4” more on kaleidoscopic new single

If there’s one thing The Kick doesn’t want to be, it’s boring. As we sit down, anticipating their debut record 1+1, it’s clear the pair take their fun very seriously. Beneath the Californian cool, the easy jokes and breezy warmth, there’s an offbeatness to LA natives Charlie Ziman and Nathan Tsunoda. Neither hails from an inherently musical background. Ziman, raised by parents in the restaurant business, and Tsunoda, raised by pharmacists, bonded over their musical autodidacticism. Creatively, they came of age together, embracing the trial and error that comes with adolescent experimentation: “Honestly, we met in high school, and we were just fucking around; we didn’t know what we were doing; that was kind of our whole thing”, Ziman explains. Quickly, the pair found the lockstep ingenuity that underpins their personal and professional partnership. “Trust is the foundation of everything. We have great chemistry, and we’re so open to each other's ideas,” Ziman explains. Their nascent collaboration paused when Tsunoda began college, a time Ziman dedicated to his music and the work of Malcom Todd, a close friend of both. Ziman feels a natural loyalty to Todd, a call to service he descr...