The band consists of Joe Casey (vocals), Greg Ahee (guitar), Alex Leonard (drums), and Scott Davidson (bass).

To date, the band has released six studio albums: No Passion All Technique (2012), Under Color of Official Right (2014), The Agent Intellect (2015), Relatives in Descent (2017), Ultimate Success Today (2020) and Formal Growth in the Desert (2023).

[12] The group's fifth album, Ultimate Success Today, was originally scheduled to follow in May 2020,[13] but was subsequently postponed to that July due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[18] Josh Terry of Consequence of Sound stated that the band "blends the moody atmospherics of ‘70s U.K. post-punk with the raw sensibility of their Motor City garage-rock forebears.

[32] In an interview with Beats Per Minute in August 2020, Casey revealed that the lyric "shouted slogans of leapers" from the track "The Aphorist" off of Ultimate Success Today is a reference to "the young bands [that] I feel are attacking us and doing a shitty job at it, or a watered down version of us.

[34][35] Ana da Silva of The Raincoats has called the band's music "so exciting and passionate and carries you to places where their imagination opens doors to yours" and praised Relatives in Descent.

[36] Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs is a fan of the band[37][38] as is David Bazan of Pedro the Lion, the latter of whom called their music "the most perfect distillation of my taste in the world"[39] and covered "The Devil in His Youth" for the 2017 anti-Trump compilation Our First 100 Days.