"[2] Prior to the formation of the band, the lead singer Meredith Graves performed folk music under the name Mouse and the Love & Light Orkestra,[3] then subsequently was a member of the Syracuse-based noise rock trio Shoppers.

After Shoppers broke up, film director Scott Coffey approached Graves, asking her to perform with a band for his 2012 movie, Adult World.

"[8] Perfect Pussy performed in CMJ music festival in 2013[5] and in SXSW in 2014,[9] after signing to the Brooklyn-based Captured Tracks record label.

[2] Zoladz rated the album an 8.6 on Pitchfork's 10-point scale and a "Best New Music" designation, saying "It doesn't feel corny or hyperbolic to call this record life-affirming, so perfectly does it capture the flashes of gratitude, self-knowledge, and inexplicable joy that often follow an experience of great pain.

[13] Graves became an anchor for MTV News and Koloski formed a new band, based in Philadelphia, called Empath[13] whose first album was produced by Sutkus.