[8] After first learning to play the guitar, he took an interest in the saxophone when he enrolled in a jazz program at Humber College as a child.

[4] It formed after another project fell through involving Shabason and Kieran Adams, who met during university.

[4] The first Destroyer album to feature Shabason was Kaputt (2010), which was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.

[2] As a session musician, Shabason has recorded for many singers and bands—including Born Ruffians, Hannah Georgas, Austra, Jill Barber, Matt Barber, Dragonette, The Operators, Allie X, Peter Elkas, The Fembots and Fucked Up.

[16] Though Shabason voiced some dissatisfaction with the album, suggesting there was "a lack of vision",[3] it received positive reviews.

Focusing on his mother's Parkinson's illness, the album includes audio clips from interviews with her.

[21] Its song "I Don't Want to Be Your Love"—previously a bonus track for Anne—features vocals by Destroyer's Dan Bejar.

[24] Released October 20, 2023 by labels Western Vinyl and Telephone Explosion Records, this concept album[25] re-scores a 1996 skateboard film with the same name distributed by Toy Machine—a modified version of its logo is used for the album's cover art.

[27] Shabason sees jazz and skateboarding overlapping in that both rely on a progression on players/skaters that have come before and carving out a unique style.

[27] In 2019, Shabason released an experimental ambient album titled Muldrew with Ben Gunning,[28] recorded at a remote location in Northern Ontario.

[29] In 2020, he collaborated with Nicholas Krgovich and Chris Harris on the album Philadelphia,[30] which was a longlisted nominee for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize.

[31] In 2021, Shabason, working again with Nicholas Krgovich and Chris Harris, released the instrumental album Florence.

[36] Musician M. Sage had invited Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich to collaborate on an album in a barn in Colorado.

[5] Speaking about this project, Shabason stated: "As long as we can get into one space together for a short amount of time, the collaborative magic that is needed to make a record is totally possible.