Bassist and friend Jesse Hayes became available when his punk rock band Time in Malta split up;[17] then, in January, Yu and Farrell met guitarist Ted Parker through a Craigslist classified advertisement.

[6] The group continued touring, performing alongside bands such as Morningwood, The Brian Jonestown Massacre,[20] and Favourite Sons.

[21] The record brought further critical praise from publications such as Spin[11][12] and SF Weekly,[8] and made several best-of-2007 album or single lists, including associate producer Andrew Ross Rowe at MTV News[22] and Muhammad Asranur at Ground Control Mag.

The band released a full-length album Tear Ourselves Away on August 10, 2009 on Heist Or Hit Records (The Answering Machine, Pomegranates) in the UK to some good press Two rough demos, "Signs" and "William", were released in May 2008 on the band's MySpace profile as an indication of "songs we'll be working on for the full length".

[37] The band members' stated influences include Curve, Radiohead, Ride, Blonde Redhead, The Beatles, Siouxsie and the Banshees,[17] U2, Echo & the Bunnymen, New Order, My Bloody Valentine, and Arcade Fire.

[15] Other suggestions of stylistic similarity have included Pixies (Bossanova and Trompe le Monde), The Cure,[38] Rilo Kiley,[33] Lush,[17][37] Echobelly,[17] Giant Drag, Land of Talk,[39] Muse,[8] The Stills, The National,[35] Pink Floyd, The Dandy Warhols, and Dinosaur Jr.[37] Ann Yu is in a band called Silver Swans with Jon Waters which released an album called Realize The Ghost in 2010 on San Francisco Independent Label, Tricycle Records.