Their Southern Souls video by Mitch Fillion received attention from many bloggers[6] and awarded them an ongoing Monday night residency at Toronto's Cameron House.

[citation needed] Their full-length debut album, My Father and the Hunter, was released independently in 2012, and recorded at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario.

After winning the Juno award, frontman Simon Ward expressed his distress after realizing that the live feed of the band's acceptance speech was cut off due to technical difficulties.

The first single from that album, "Spirits", topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart the last two weeks of May 2016[11][12] and also enjoyed significant mainstream radio play in Canada and a number of European countries.

[16] The band began an international tour in the summer of 2016, continuing throughout 2017 in Australia, Europe, and North America including festivals such as Bonnaroo and Governor's Ball.