The band's original line up was the keyboard player Tim Croston, guitarists Pete Williams and James Shames, singers Emily Gray and Ed Carder and guitarist and drum machine operator Mark Halloran, all students at the University of Oxford.
The band's music had Gray deliver self-written monologues over guitar noise and samples guided by a beat, drawing comparisons to Arab Strap.
[1] The band's first release was a split CD single with Moonkat on the Jitter record label.
[2] The band recorded its first album, Indian Ink, that summer which was again released by Jitter on CD and 10" vinyl.
[2] In 2013, Gray started to work with the group Distant Correspondent and she appears on several tracks of their first, self-titled album.