Taea Thale

The Brooklyn duo Blondes makes shimmering electronic music, but the members Zach Steinman and Sam Haar used to be more interested in guitars than synths. “In college we were into Gang of Four and Television,” Steinman said, “but our tastes evolved through ’70s disco and Kraut, and eventually ’80s electronic.” It’s a trajectory that is evident in the sparse vocal samples and economical beats on their well received debut EP, “Touched.” The pair’s creative adventurousness also spilled over into a recent photo shoot for The Moment, for which Steinman and Haar were fittingly dressed in clothes by White Mountaineering, a Japanese label that mixes up American and avant-garde references with the same abandon as Blondes’ experimenting on their synths. (Yosuke Aizawa, the White Mountaineering designer, honed his chops assisting Junya Watanabe, one of the iconoclasts of Japanese fashion.) “I’ve definitely never worn a kilt before,” Haar said of his outfit. Luckily, in music as in life, Haar and his partner in crime are not afraid of change.