She has co-written several tracks with United States record producer and songwriter, Robert Conley including "Smoke into Flames" (October 2012), "A Place to Call Home" (March 2013), and "Don't Rescue Me" (May).

[4] Her early influences included artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac and Cat Stevens.

In 2011 Austin returned to Australia and in 2012 she started writing again with longtime collaborator, United States-born producer and songwriter Robert Conley, who was based in Sydney.

[6] A music video for the single was shot in an abandoned town near Salton Sea, California, which was directed by Imogene Barron, and Ben Sullivan was the director of photography.

[7] From December a second track, "Don't Rescue Me" (written by Austin, Conley and Joel Chapman),[8] was used in the HBO summer brand campaign which ran into January.

[7] The two-minute ad ran in cinemas and on radio for HBO series including True Blood, Game of Thrones, and Girls.

[4][14] In March Austin and Conley won a competition to collaborate with US producer, J. J. Abrams, on a track for the Australian version of the science fiction film, Star Trek Into Darkness (April 2013).

By mid-2013 Austin and Conley were also working on her debut album, she has found it "difficult at times because I think I have finalised the tracks then along comes another one that I love and we're reassessing the whole project over!