The band's expansive guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as "drop-tuned, slow, repetitive, heavy, dreamy, and undeniably ear-wormy".

[2] Following the disbandment of Slowride, he soon decided to take a break from music,[2] and moved away from his native Texas to Massachusetts where he shifted his focus to wood art exclusively for two years.

[3] After returning to Dallas, Phillips had aspired to a heavier sound and recruited Estill as a singer-bassist, with Starks on drums, and then they formed True Widow.

[4][2] The band, which describes its own style of slow, heavy, cerebral music as "stonegaze",[5] or dubbed "doomgaze" by the media,[6] formed in November 2007.

[10] BBC music critic, Mike Diver, wrote that "taking cues from grunge, slowcore, stoner-rock and shoegaze, the Texan trio have crafted a nine-track opus which is as exquisite of elegant detail as it is exemplary of skull-rumbling riff".