Since co-founding electronic music band Sneaker Pimps in 1996, he has been a producer for Lana Del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds, FKA Twigs, Ellie Goulding, and Tom Vek.
with fellow Northerner and childhood friend Chris Corner, and released the white label The Soul of Indiscretion EP.
With an album of material written, singer Kelli Dayton (who had been introduced to Howe and Corner through Derek Birkett of One Little Indian) was invited to sing, and the band Sneaker Pimps was then formed.
It originally started as a secret entrance into the Sneaker Pimps comeback in 2021, in which they released their fourth solo album, Squaring The Circle.
The plan being, that sources would drop information or content through the Ape Mink Press name - which is actually a direct anagram of Sneaker Pimps, but this was slowly faded into silence, until several singles for the Squaring The Circle album were released and remixes from the then-mysterious AMP were teased and eventually made available.
[4] Howe, who then made it clear from numerous online interviews and press notes for the remixes, that this was not only a secret alias from himself for producing music, but a full-fledged solo project.
Ice Skating was released on User Friendly Records and featured contributions from Sneaker Pimps' Chris Corner and Dave Westlake.
Corner relocated to Berlin with the success of his solo project IAMX, whilst Howe stayed in the UK to further his writing/production career.
Since Sneaker Pimps, Howe has written and produced for a whole host of respected artists including Lana Del Rey, Ellie Goulding, Marina Diamandis, Tom Vek, Jessie Ware, Mikky Ekko, Adele, FKA Twigs, Say Lou Lou and Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile.
In 2008 and 2009, Howe worked extensively on Marina Diamandis' debut album The Family Jewels co-writing and/or producing the majority of tracks.
In 2010, Howe produced CocknBullKid's debut album Adulthood on Island Records, including the co-writes "Yellow" and "The Hoarder", with Hannah Robinson and "Mexico" with Gonzales.
In 2011, Howe wrote several songs with Lana Del Rey and other collaborators such as Guy Chambers for her debut album Born to Die.
In 2015, Howe worked with Maxine Ashley, Jam City, Natalie Duncan, Aluna George and the Kanye West signed artist Kacy Hill.
Howe's compositions have appeared in many films, most notably The Saint, Danny Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary and Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también.
As a visual artist, Howe has exhibited installations in galleries such as London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and the CCA Glasgow.
2015 saw the release of Howe's second major film score to Bleeding Heart [6] which starred Jessica Biel and Zosia Mamet and was directed by Diane Bell.