For the quartet, the real nexus was El Prado, a Silverlake bar that, though it wasn’t where they all originally met, ended up being the namesake to one of their first cult hits, “el prado freestyle.” Set to a beat Are made living in a garage in Santa Cruz in 2017, the track both anchored them to L.A.'s grunge legacy and planted the seed that their project could be more than just another basement experiment.

“It didn’t form our friendship, but it was a bar that generations of people in L.A. would always go to. Like, you’ll always meet older people who are like, ‘Damn, El Prado was the spot for .’ [...] And at the time, people would just come hang out on the sidewalk and linger. It felt very gritty and cool to linger,” Mamnoon says. And so even though the bar wasn’t necessarily the original inception, it was, in many ways, a cultural anchor. As Are and Noneman point out, finding themselves at a local spot like El Prado felt akin to what the punks might have found at CBGBs, especially in the post-COVID era. That feeling has been infectious. Now, Mamnoon says fans at shows all over the world approach her and say they tried El Prado just because of the track.