Among the glut of fresh acts, they're special...."[7] In 2013, they appeared at festivals such as SXSW and Reading and Leeds and released their final EP, Take In Colour before disbanding in 2014.

[8] After the disbanding of Deaf Club, in 2015, Mackey provided backing vocals on The Maccabees fourth and final studio album, Marks to Prove It, as well as appearing with them on Later... with Jools Holland.

In June 2018, Mackey was asked to DJ alongside Marika Hackman for Anna Calvi's return gig at London's Heaven nightclub.

Summer festival appearances and a debut tour in October 2018 saw Mackey assemble the band of musicians that would go on to play with her until 2021: guitarist Jac Roberts (also of Deaf Club), drummer Josh Heffernan and keyboards player Louis Swords Milburn.

[14] In 2019, the band played at POP Montreal during which Mackey's second EP, Into The Blue Hour was released, followed by appearances at SXSW and a second headline UK tour in April, which finished with a sold-out show at London's Omeara.

Mackey spent the summer of 2019 working on her debut album, which was written and recorded at The Church Studios during the aftermath of a breakup.

"The bulk of this record was written during the two weeks after a long-term and quite strange breakup situation," Mackey tells Atwood Magazine, "I had left Margate, I was staying on my friend's sofa in London, and felt very un-anchored.

Clash describes the album as a "dreamy production emphasised by techno undertones, transcendental vocals and wistful instrumentals".

[24] She runs a monthly radio show on Foundation FM, which focusses on ambient electronica and lo-fi dance music.