The band went on hiatus from 2000–2011, reforming with a line-up featuring Jones, Tee and Shane Fahey from Makers of the Dead Travel Fast.
[4] According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, their "aim was to combine all manner of 'found sounds' and loose song structures with a perverse absurdist sense of humour (in the Snakefinger/Residents vein) and set them to a rock backing; in short, white noise with an amphetamine beat.
[4] In November 1982 they released their debut album, Prat Culture, which was recorded with the line up of Gibson, Jones and Tee joined by Michael Prowse on drums.
[4] A seven-track EP, I Feel so Relaxed with You (October 1983), was issued by the line up of Jones, Prowse and Shane Fahey on synthesiser and vocals (ex-the Makers of the Dead Travel Fast).
McFarlane cited Mark Mordure's description the EP, "all open guts and withered emotions", who compared it to work by Public Image Ltd.[4] Jon Casimir of The Canberra Times felt the group were, "Heavily influenced by European electronic music, particularly the likes of Can, their objective was to explore the possibilities of mixing 'white noise with a beat'.
"[3] They recorded a live seven-track EP, A Dancing Foot and a Praying Knee Don't Belong on the Same Leg (May 1984), at Wakefield Musicians Club in January with Tim Whitten producing.
[4] Scattered Order's next studio album, Career of the Silly Thing, for a cost of $3000,[6] appeared in September 1985, with McFarlane declaring, "[it] represented something of a breakthrough release, revealing a shift towards a more conventional and melodic yet still challenging sound.
"[4] Casimir determined, "[it] is their most interesting and accessible, with a more harmonious synthesis of noise and beat than they had previously achieved... [and] reveals an obsession with the grotesque on the part of major songwriters.
"[4] Prowse had already left the band and in January of the following year they recorded their next album, Comfort (May 1988), using session drummers, Greg Fitzgerald and Robert Souter.