[1] They formed in 1998 in a pub, when bartender and drummer Dave Weeks overheard a conversation between two customers, Chris Martin (guitar) and Lucy Atkinson (bassist) about analog recording.

Weeks joined the discussion, and they found they also shared mutual musical interests, and hence agreed to form a band.

Kinski issued its first record Space Launch for Frenchie earlier that same year consisting of six tracks running for 45 minutes.

Finally, the three-way "triptych" split, Crickets and Fireflies, was released by the Music Fellowship label with the bands Paik & Surface of Eceon.

An album, Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water, was issued in 2004 by the Strange Attractors Audio House label consisting of live recordings from Herzog performances.

[6] The second album on Kill Rock Stars[7] entitled 7 (or 8), was recorded and mixed in San Francisco at El Studio with Phil Manley (of Trans Am) and was released in June 2015.