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Having spent most of the 1990s playing in the Weezer-esque power pop band Kara's Flowers, the quartet re-evaluated their musical direction at the start of the new millennium. The band scrapped their straightforward, power chord-friendly sound and adopted a funkier, more textured sound, thanks, in part, to the addition of second guitarist, James Valentine. With a more viable sound, the band recorded their debut album, Songs About Jane, and immediately scored with the single, "Harder To Breathe."