It was founded by Robert Harrison after the dissolution of his previous group, Cotton Mather, and features several of the same musicians.
Future Clouds And Radar was much more experimental and varied than the work of Cotton Mather, incorporating genres as wide-ranging as reggae, psychedelia, avant-garde, and ambient music in addition to pop and rock.
Also in 2008, a single-disc distillation of the debut album was released in the UK, removing eleven tracks and adding three otherwise unavailable acoustic performances.
Nickelodeon animator Keith Graves was chosen to create a video of the song "Dr.
"[4] Other videos include:[5] Austinist described the group as "Beatles-esque psychedelia",[6] while The New Yorker described the music as "sprawling orchestral art rock.