Initially drawing on early krautrock and dub-influenced post-punk, their work increasingly incorporated drum machines and analog electronics.
After Acute Records released the well-received career anthology Ike Yard: 1980–82 Collected,[4] the band reformed as a three-piece unit with original members Stuart Argabright, Kenneth Compton and Michael Diekmann in 2007.
[5] After a hiatus of roughly 28 years, Danish/Swedish imprint Phisteria released Öst, a limited edition 10-inch,[6] which was followed by their latest full-length, Nord, Phisteria licensing the album to Desire Records for worldwide distribution.
[7] In 2017 the Vienna based label Noiztank released an EP Sacred Machine, and then in 2018 the album Rejoy.
In 2024 the San Francisco based label Dark Entries released an album of music recorded in 1982, titled 1982.