After independently releasing four albums – In Faceless Towns Forever (2006), Rescue Weekend, No Ceremony and Infanticidal Genuflector (all in 2008) – the group announced that they would be splitting up in March 2010.
[citation needed] The album blended what Stafford had been experimenting with thus far: atmospheric acoustic folk and a capela experimentalism with an unusual sway for melodic, hook-laden pop choruses.
[citation needed] In March 2016, Edinburgh record label Song, by Toad issued Stafford's sixth solo album, Taser Revelations,[15] on CD, white 12-inch vinyl and download.
It was produced and engineered by regular collaborator Robbie Lesiuk, who used the warehouse's natural reverb in the large room, and also played a plethora of instruments including steel drums, bass, organ and mellotron.
[citation needed] Other collaborators included Greggor Douglas who improvised synthesizer parts on a vintage Roland Juno and Omnichord and Anna Miles who provided vocal harmonies on three tracks.
Clash magazine commented, "(Stafford is) A songwriter of real depth, rich in understanding, in melodic virtuosity, his work has gradually built up into an imposing, heroic catalogue".
Working with The Pumpkinseeds and Modern Studies cellist and arranger Pete Harvey and a nine-piece choir, the album referenced Stafford's struggles with depression that had plagued him since youth.
Elsewhere The Scotsman 's 4/5 review noted that "it's worth surrendering to its shifting soundscapes" and BBC Radio 6 Music's Nemone on Electric Ladyland stated FBTC was “An absolute triumph of an album”.
The album mostly resembled Y'all is Fantasy Island's `Rescue Weekend' (2008), which saw Stafford write desolate blues-inspired songs written from mostly characters' perspectives and touched on themes of addiction, mental health, loneliness and childhood neglect.
In a 9/10 review for Clash, Nick Roseblade writes: "What ‘Diamond Of A Horse Famine’ shows is that Stafford is back to his best, but he isn’t recreating his previous albums for the sake of it.
After the four-track EP `Music For Reface CP' in December 2020, which showcased Stafford's new-found love for the titular electric piano, label Song by Toad again issued another LP entitled `Trophic Asynchrony' in 2021.
In his 8.4/10 review for Backseat Mafia, Chris Sawle wrote: "So different from his previous two albums, which illustrates his far-reaching talent, Trophic Asynchrony is circular, ever-mutating, expressive, shows rather than tells in the warp and weft of a sound palette which has its roots in the recherché traditions of Moondog, Terry Riley, Masoyoshi Fujita et al, rather than the waters of folk; an octet of tracks to soundtrack the societal confusion and informational overload of political chaos, plague and ecological precarity."
[citation needed] In 2010, Stafford directed the promotional video for fellow Scottish act The Twilight Sad's single "Seven Years of Letters"[22] from their second album Forget the Night Ahead.
This lyrical, expressionist retelling of the Redding Pit disaster of 1923 not only captures the poignancy of the literal event, but explores a multitude of wounds deep within the national psyche.'