They released their first album, If Children, independently in 2007 and subsequently signed to Merge Records in 2008.

Their third album, Civilian, was released in March 2011 by Merge in the US and City Slang in Europe.

[7] In 2016, they released Tween, consisting of leftover material recorded between Civilian and Shriek.

[8] On April 6, 2018, their next full-length album, The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs, was released.

[9][10] For their The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs tour during the spring of 2018, Wye Oak added bassist William Joseph Hackney to the live line-up.