[3] Influenced by a wide variety of rock bands, including the Jesus Lizard, Blue Öyster Cult, and Cheap Trick,[4][5] Chavez utilizes angular, asymmetrical riffs and dramatic dynamic shifts.

Chavez's second full-length album Ride the Fader was released in 1996, and was praised by Entertainment Weekly as "a fine specimen of spare, brainy post-metal hard rock".

[10] In 2006, Matador Records released Better Days Will Haunt You, a compilation of virtually all of Chavez's studio material up to that point,[11][12] with the addition of new vocals for the song "White Jeans".

[14] Sweeney teamed up with Will Oldham (under the moniker Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) for the 2005 album Superwolf,[15] as well producing and playing on Early Man's debut record for Matador, Closing In.

[17] Clay Tarver has kept himself busy directing various television commercials as well as writing the script for the movie Joy Ride and later becoming the co-showrunner and an executive producer of Silicon Valley.