She began playing the guitar aged 14, winning the best female musician award in New Zealand's national youth music event Smokefreerockquest.

[2] Reid performs live with a band of musicians, including Sam Taylor (guitar), Richie Pickard (bass), and Joe McCallum (drums).

Lacking startup capital, she set up a PledgeMe campaign which was given a significant boost after she opened a show for Tiny Ruins.

[1] After living and playing shows in Australia, Reid returned home to Port Chalmers and began an English Degree at the University of Otago.

Before touring, Reid returned to the Lyttleton studio with Ben Edwards and her backing band and recorded her sophomore album Preservation.

[9] Judges described the song as "a stand-out folk-rock gem with its wonderfully direct delivery, charting heartbreak and dissolution, through striking imagery".