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“It’s an amazing thing to work with your brother,” says Jonathan Rosen, one half of the breakout sibling duo Cones. “When you know someone that well, when you can truly be yourself with them, when you can create together without inhibition, something indescribable happens.” It’s that indescribable chemistry that fuels Cones’ spectacular debut album, ‘Pictures of Pictures.’ Recorded at the band’s own Honeymoon Suite studio in LA, the record offers up an intoxicating blend of shimmering psychedelic exploration and muscular pop craftsmanship, complete with infectious hooks and deep grooves that simultaneously hint at everything from Big Star and the Replacements to ELO and the Bee Gees. The Rosen brothers draw on their radically different backgrounds here to remarkable effect: keyboardist/producer Michael is classically-trained and technically- minded, with a degree in composition and music technology; guitarist and principal singer/songwriter Jonathan has always taken a more