In the first song on their upcoming debut EP, Irene Greene and Mason Summit, collectively known as The Prickly Pair, sing “I hold my breath and take the plunge.” Leaps like this one, both personally and musically, mark The Prickly Pair’s tale. The first one was when Berwyn, PA native, Greene, reached out to Summit to team up for a class assignment when they both were students at USC/Thornton School of Music—they were in the same class, but had never met. The next came a bit later when they became a couple.