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"  Photo: Jim Wright Despite having recorded a 2009 album with Scarlett Johansson, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn said his new band, The Olms, is his first pure collaboration. &amp;quot;This is the premiere time from a writing standpoint in which it&amp;#039;s really split down the middle,&amp;quot; he noted of his new &amp;#039;60s-inspired folk-rock outfit, done in collaboration with musician and artist J.D. King. The duo have been friends for over a decade and will release their self-titled debut album on June 4. Now you can listen to the album cut &amp;quot;Twice As Nice&amp;quot; exclusively on ELLE.com. &amp;quot;Twice As Nice&amp;quot; was the first song Yorn and King wrote as a pair. The two friends had toured together in the past, but Yorn said it never occurred to either of them to try and record music with the other. That changed on a fall day in 2011 when Yorn visited King&amp;#039;s new Los Angeles home studio. The two began bouncing ideas off one another and &amp;quot;before you know it, maybe 20 minutes later, we had [&amp;quot;Twice As Nice&amp;quot;] written,&amp;quot; revealed Yorn. The singer admitted he&amp;#039;s generally a solitary writer. However, working with King, he said, was a blissful change of pace. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a different kind of thing but it&amp;#039;s fun,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a time to be solitary and say what you wanna say...and then there&amp;#039;s a time where it might be interesting to try other things. It was fun to be able to bounce ideas off somebody. We almost would finish each other&amp;#039;s sentences.&amp;quot; The Olms are set to hit the road this summer for a brief run of shows and, as Yorn excitedly added, they&amp;#039;re already halfway done with a second album. As for where the project heads from here? Said Yorn, &amp;quot;It always comes back to the music.&amp;quot;      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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