He is most notable for his work as part of the band Grasscut, described by Clash magazine as "genuinely daring electronica artists".
[3] He is also the author of Different Every Time: the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt,[4] which was published by Serpent's Tail[5][6] and features a foreword by Jonathan Coe.
[9] As a writer, he has written for publications including The Guardian[10] and the Financial Times.
[13] Along with the songwriter Andrew Phillips, O'Dair is one half of Grasscut, who have previously released two albums on Ninja Tune (1 Inch: 1/2 Mile[14] and Unearth[15]) and a third on Lo Recordings, 2015's Everyone Was A Bird.
[16] The band have been described as building their reputation on "writing about situations and places, rather than standard pop songs",[17] with The Quietus reviewing Everyone Was A Bird as "that rare slab of post-rock that uses the genre's textures and general ethos of exploration to create new sounds instead of rehashing old ones".