The song "Smash This World" received some radio play on college stations, prompting Chicago-based Minty Fresh to sign Papas Fritas, and in October 1995 they released their self-titled debut album.

(Matt O'Keefe, a roadie for Papas Fritas during their tours with the Cardigans and Blur in 1997, wrote a novel titled You Think You Hear, published in 2001,[3] that is "LOOSELY based on our experiences on the road," according to the band's website.

"[4]) Donna Coppola (keyboards, percussion) and Chris Colthart (guitar) of the Solar Saturday (later the Faraway Places) joined Papas Fritas's touring lineup in the summer of 1999[5] and helped promote the band's third LP, Buildings and Grounds, which hit stores in March 2000.

After the tour ended, Asthana and Gendel went back to school, the former earning a master's degree in public health from Boston University in 2002, while the latter moved to Los Angeles to study at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Goddess stuck with music, cowriting “Amsterdam” in 2003 for Guster, fellow alumni of Tufts University; working with Bleu on two tracks for the Boston power-pop singer's Electric Light Orchestra pastiche, Alpacas Orgling (2006); contributing a song to the Nickelodeon series Yo Gabba Gabba!