The band was founded in Cardiff, Wales in 2012, initially as Lawrie-Winfield's solo project and "blends genres like electronic, pop, rock, and hip-hop, but it's all done with a sharp alternative edge".

"[2] Pitchfork Media stated on 20 June 2013, Until the Ribbon Breaks' early single "Pressure" "was written during a period when Winfield was sleeping on the floor of his studio with no concrete plan for his career".

"[4] With the track "2025", released in June 2013, Pitchfork writes that Winfield "manages to paint a starkly provocative picture of emotional decay, exhaling his vocals with a painfully resigned rasp circled by lurching drum machines, deflating synths, and industrial clanging.

To create their debut album, the band "buried themselves in a hidden studio space armed with just a film projector, a microphone, a drum machine, and a piano".

[9] On 26 January 2018, the band was featured on a video by the YouTube social experiment channel 'Yes Theory' regarding past alcoholism.

The band "blends genres like electronic, pop, rock, and hip-hop, but it's all done with a sharp alternative edge,"[1] and Pitchfork Media has called Until the Ribbon Breaks "avant-R&B savants".

Silent moving images of nature, space, a busy street, whatever it maybe, take on a new sense of gravitas when soundtracked and vice versa.