It’s spring 2002 in Woodstock, New York when 10-year-old brothers Aaron and Wyatt are given a lift-changing gift from their music-loving dad; a CD of Green Day’s debut album, Dookie. Through thin, over-the-ear headphones connected to a portable Walkman CD player, the Mones brothers are enthralled by the sound of punk rock and realize the coolest thing in the world is being in a rock band like their newfound heroes. In their garage on Spillway Road, armed with used Line 6 amps and a couple of cheap Epiphone guitars purchased by their dad’s sale of his vintage guitar collection, the shy twin brothers begin what will become a life-long obsession and the one thing they now can’t live without…making music.

At the age of 12, the Mones brothers started writing songs and playing in bands together before riding their first wave of success in 2012 with the release of With Your Love, a full-length, folk pop-infused singer-songwriter album performed under the artist moniker, The Daydreams. Garnering nearly a million streams to date, this debut project confirmed Wyatt and Aaron not only loved making music, but too, were damn good at it. And with a bit of insight, it’s no wonder why. Raised by divorced yet loving parents who would come to always encourage and support the creative pursuits of their sons, the shy and quiet boys found music to be the truest and most expressive way to communicate their feelings to each other and to the world. It’s in the music, in the lyrics and the melodies, that Aaron and Wyatt find a place of solace and relatability. Like their favorite artists Frank Ocean, Sufjan Stevens, and Blake Mills, in the music is where the Mones brothers feel most at home.

Hopping on and off numerous projects over the next decade, Aaron and Wyatt’s musical journey led them beyond The Daydreams into becoming TWiiNSPEAK, a matured, more produced multi-genre version of the magic they’d been doing all along. With Wyatt covering drums, vocals, and mixing and Aaron holding down all things stringed, the pair have honed in their complimentary skills as songwriters, producers, and multi-instrumentalist across genres like RnB, Pop, Country, Rock, Folk, and even a little Reggae making them two of the most-talented and versatile music-making twin brothers in music. To date, their contributions have garnered over 4 million streams with credits on projects by artists including Paul Moody, Ghost Prom, Sid Simon, David Duchovny, Leo Lovechild, Webbed Wing, Girl Skin, Daniel Williams, and Ben Fugate, to name a few.

All of that said, if you ask them, their history has been merely prep work for the Mones brothers as new partnerships and a reimagined artist project come together in the first part of 2024. To start, the pair signed a multifaceted record deal with the Indiana-based independent label, Wally Opus Records, bringing the budding label not only their original music but also their talents as musicians and producers. Signed as the enigmatic persona Spillway, Aaron and Wyatt come full-circle naming the new artist project after the beloved street they once knew as promising youngsters. By mixing the music of Folk, Country, and R&B with whimsical, new-age songwriting, Spillway's music unveils an artistic voice made up of the combination of all of the duo’s influences that have shaped them since the time they first fell in love with making music.

Now living on separate coasts, the Mones Brothers continue to collaborate every single day either online or by traveling to work together in person, for in the music, the twin brothers connect and reconnect with the essence of what makes them feel whole; it’s what gives their lives meaning and purpose. As Wyatt puts it, “Listening to other people's songs, especially as a kid, always felt like a mirror into my own life. I could process my life and give meaning to it through other people's words and sounds, especially through the difficult times and that's something I would like to be able to do for other people. As artists, it's our responsibility to reveal the magic; the deeper resonant things that exist in life, but are hiding beneath the thin veils of reality that, without art, seem impenetrable.”