Early on New Build received national radio play on the BBC by DJs including Mary Anne Hobbes, Nick Grimshaw, Rob Da Bank and Peter Serafinowicz,[2] featured in worldwide publications such as Rolling Stone magazine,[3] Mixmag[4] and The Guardian[5] and prior to releasing their first album released two singles on their own label Lanark Recordings, the first entitled "Misery Loves Company", the second "Do You Not Feel Loved?"....
One of these early recordings, "The Stone That The Builder Rejected", was subsequently featured under the artist name "Lanark" on the Hot Chip entry of the "DJ Kicks" compilation series.
The band undertook their first headline tour in March 2012 to mark the release of their first album Including sold-out shows in the UK, Europe and New York, plus a trip to the SXSW festival in Austin.
In April 2013, armed with the one-off single "False Thing", the band headlined the Britweek Festival in Los Angeles and subsequently toured the West Coast of the USA.
[16] In August 2014, the band announced the intent to release their 2nd album internationally on Sunday Best Recordings, and revealed the new song "The Sunlight" with a video directed by friends Sam Lawlor and Lindsey Pollock, premiered on Pitchfork Media.