After several days in Mexico City, churning out songs under the tropical sun, songwriters Piya Malik and Sabrina Cunningham returned to their Bushwick practice space, a steamy little box in the basement of Malik’s apartment complex, just enough space for a drummer, pianist, bassist, two singers and all their takeout Mexican food.

Glamour is a swinging pendulum in the lives of touring musicians, and the frontwomen of the Brooklyn and London-based band Say She She are eating it up. After years of singing with other people’s bands, Malik, 34, and Cunningham, 31, joined forces in September to start their own project.

“We both at the same time, serendipitously, said, ‘It’s time now,” Malik said, banging her hands on the table. “Fuck it, let’s start a band together. It was just perfect.”