After playing solo beneath the alias A Helpful Diagram, Aaron Mangle teamed up with Pat Ryan and started making music as Cousins. The Nova Scotia indie rock and roll duo embraced lo-fi in its strategy and produced fuzzy recordings, with Mangle performing a lot of the creation and playing all of the devices (except drums), and distributed them as cassettes at displays. In ’09 2009, Mangle made a decision to make a Cousins recording on Youth Golf club Information, and recruited drummer Andy March and bassist Dalin Ursenbach to greatly help out for the documenting of From Town.