[5] At a New Year's Eve party in December 2011 Sasha Carlson, formerly of Pineapple Head,[6] Colours and The Coshercot Honeys/Brain Slaves[7] first brought up the idea of forming a band with Toto Vivian, whom he had met on a previous trip to London in 2010.
The duo then expanded their lineup to include Vivian's former INTL bandmate Tom Beal on bass, who had also previously been a member of Shropshire band Ripchord.
[18] The band sporadically toured the US throughout 2014, performing mostly new material, including shows at SXSW and the CMJ festival in New York City.
On 10 October 2014 before Splashh's CMJ 2014 performances the band announced that Brooklyn-based, Australian-born musician Angus Tarnawsky would join the group on drums.
[22] The band split time between London and New York from 2014 to early 2016, working on material for their second album entitled Honey + Salt,[23] commenting on the change in direction, Vivian commented that they had "always wanted to move into more experimental, synth-based dance music", with Carlson adding that they had become "massively bored" of their previous material.
[24] On 4 May 2016, the band announced that they had signed to the Cinematic Music Group label and were set to record their second album Waiting A Lifetime in New York the following week - abandoning the previous work over the last two years and returning to their garage rock guitar sound.