Prentice and Hillman met in student halls as freshers at the University of Glasgow, and soon began running a regular music evening at the Stereo bar (now a vegetarian cafe called The 78[1]), on Kelvinhaugh Street in the West End.
Having initially performed individually at these events, the pair soon began collaborating as a duo and quickly found an idiosyncratic-yet-natural niche: euphoric, folk-tinged pop music.
"[5] Lyrically, the band has traversed a diverse range of topics and themes, including getting older, finding one's place in the world, body image, and political history – often displaying chagrin at the influence of Margaret Thatcher's premiership.
In mid-March, "Shifts" (the opening track from Treacherous) was featured in the finale of the fifth series of Skins on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
As Hillman focused on academic endeavours, Prentice recorded and released his first solo album The Invisible Hand[12] through the Instinctive Racoon label,[13] and ventured out on the road in a support slot on the Scottish tour of We Were Promised Jetpacks.
In early 2013 Prentice co-devised and performed in Rantin', a song-based storytelling production with writer/performers Kieran Hurley and Julia Taudevin, and fellow musician Drew Wright (a.k.a.
[16] Later in the year saw two releases, beginning with new track "Tell Her I Love Her" on a split single with fellow Glasgow band John Knox Sex Club in October.