[3] Floating Action was formed by Kauffman after his previous musical project, the Motown sound group The Choosy Beggars, broke up in 2005.
[8] Kauffman wrote and recorded an album with Michael Nau of Cotton Jones and Mighty Thread while quarantined under the project name Dream Sitch.
He played guitar on Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence[13] and Angel Olsen's My Woman,[14] bass on Jim James' Uniform Distortion,[15] and drums on Tyler Ramsey's The Valley Wind.
[17] Other albums Kauffman has played on include three Ray LaMontagne releases (Supernova, Ouroboros, and Part of the Light)[18] and Good Advice by Basia Bulat.
"[1] Floating Action's music has been compared to the Beatles,[5] the Black Keys,[23] James Brown,[5] Casiotone for the Painfully Alone,[24] Ray Davies,[25] Dr. Dog,[26] the Flaming Lips,[27] John Mayer,[24] Menomena,[23] My Morning Jacket,[26] Okkervil River,[23] Bill Withers,[27] and the xx.