Their first album for Island, Curse of the Pheromones (1987), was an underground hit, and the group performed several well-received multi-media tours using film-makers drawn from various backgrounds, such as Frank Passingham, Dave Borthwick, with whom they later produced the sound-track to The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb and Dave Alex Riddett also of Aardman Animations, as well as Richard Kwietniowsi who later directed Love and Death on Long Island.
In addition to production duties for various artists they started co-writing for Bristol bands such as Massive Attack, for whom they wrote two hit songs for their Protection album – "Karma Coma" and "Euro Child."
More recently they have written scores for XX/XY (starring Mark Ruffalo), a 2nd Richard Kwietniowski film Owning Mahowny (featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Minnie Driver), and the 2016 BBC TV series The Living and the Dead.
[1] They have also received critical acclaim for the work on the ITV series Wire in the Blood, now in its sixth season, and scored Alex Garland's 2020 miniseries Devs.
Most recent projects include a collaboration with Sean Cook (formerly of Spiritualized and Lupine Howl) called The Flies (Their album, All Too Human was released in 2007) and ± The Mother Beef, an experimental dirty garage rock n' roll band founded in Bristol 2010/2011.