[1][2] It grew out of Wadley's prior projects, a zine Loser, a mock political action group, Campaign Against Uninteresting Shops in Brunswick Street and a fictitious tribute band, Christmas Party.
Its music consists of electronic elements (from synthesisers, samplers and drum machines), along with samples from TV nature programmes, advertisements and audio books by Richard Dawkins, selectively chosen to reinforce the bleak, fatalistic message, coupled with dark humour.
According to a reviewer for Radiation from Space Magazine, it is "esoteric, weird and wild keyboard and samples, blended with drums, bass and odd guitar they created a hypnotic groove.
[9] In 2006 a compilation album, Neuters, was issued, its "music consisted of dinky covers of Top 40 hits with the lyrics changed to address the life of the office loser.
"[10] Guy Blackman of The Age described the band's members, "two unassuming public-servant types lurking behind cheesy synthesisers, with a singer who began most gigs naked, putting on an item of clothing after each song in a deadpan inversion of rock'n'roll behaviour.