[3] Reeves and Cullen play a version of electronic dance music considered to fall under the gothic pop label and their self-described sound is considered "guitar-crazy and danceable"[4] The band became well-known when their music was featured in the 2013 hit video game, Grand Theft Auto V. The game features two songs by the band including "Colours", an original song written for the game and is featured on the game's soundtrack, and their 2012 second single "Heartbreak" both featured in the in-game's indie radio station Radio Mirror Park.
"And then after awhile, I realized actually what we do in Shitdisco is what I like doing as a musician"[6] As for Cullen, he knew that he always wanted to make dance music in some kind of capacity.
However, there was a fine line dividing what they did in Shitdisco versus what they wanted to do in Age of Consent, and he knew it was important that the two better define those boundaries.
The challenge, then, has not been to recreate the sound of Shitdisco, nor has it been to do something entirely different, but rather to compile the elements of the former project that they loved and place those into Age of Consent, mixing them along with new ideas.
Yet although the song came out in September 2011, the seeds of it were first planted years prior, when the two were jamming at a Shitdisco band practice and when the two began to do music together again, this incomplete track seemed as good a starting point as ever, particularly because Reeves marks it as the transition point, or "the thing that happened between the two bands.