[1] The band's debut single "Sea Sore Songs" was released on Amberley/Cleverlegs.
[3][4] The band had a good relationship with the now-defunct Guildford label, Words, and Works Rejected.
[5] Their subsequent singles ("North",[6] "Left-handed",[7] "Some Rivals"[8]) and the band's first two LPs (Such as you are and still not seeming to mind and The more we are the funnier it is[9]) show a wider range of influences.
[10] In early 2008, they released a double album, Death to Technicians / It ain't what you do it's what it does to you,[11] described by Drowned in Sound as "wonkily elaborate".
This received positive reviews from sources including The Sunday Times and Delusions of Adequacy.