[1] In the summer of 2009, Andrea Lo, Alex Andrew and Adam Nanji got together to play a single performance at Vancouver's Railway Club.

As a trio, they saw their potential as a team, added Cook, Lee and former Tegan and Sara drummer Rob Chursinoff and started writing.

They opened for Gotye, Karkwa and Said the Whale, played the Squamish Valley Music Festival[6] and, in 2011 and 2012, played the Rifflandia Music Festival[7] and were selected to travel across Canada with Tracks on Tracks, a recording project of Green Couch Sessions, CBC Radio and Via Rail.

[8] The band continued writing and produced a complete album's worth of material; on the advice of Carswell, it was scrapped.

[19] The band attended the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's Indie Music Residency in October 2013, where they were mentored by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene.

[21] They played South by Southwest,[22] Ottawa's CityFolk Festival,[23] and opened for Half Moon Run, Hannah Georgas, Bahamas and Born Ruffians.

[24] In November 2013, tour mates Bear Mountain and The Darcys opened for The Belle Game when they headlined at Vancouver's Vogue Theatre.

In February 2015, they traveled to Montreal to record their second studio album with producers Kevin Drew and Dave Hamelin (The Stills).