The band was formed in 2007 and performed extensively between September and December 2008, playing in bars, clubs and other small venues.
[3] You and What Army then started work on a second EP, The End of the Beginning, again recording in Brown's home studio in January and February.
[9] You and What Army has also performed with Hadouken!, Chase and Status, Tempa T, My Passion, Goldie Lookin Chain, Dave McPherson, and Silent Descent.
However, on 10 July 2014, it was announced on their Facebook page that they were on indefinite hiatus, cancelling all plans of releasing what was to be their debut album.
In October 2020, Smith discussed his experiences with child loss and released music dealing with this subject.
The band's self-titled EP features influences from djent metal on tracks such as "Lucidity" and "Take the World by Storm", Dave Brown describing the latter one as "really heavy",[19] as well as a "slow, less heavy" liquid drum and bass song ("Visionary")[20] featuring both Brown and Smith singing.
In the final part of the competition, the band was picked by judges Andy Copping, Beckie Sugden, Charlie Simpson (Fightstar) and Darren Taylor (Rocksound editor)[22] to compete against the two other remaining bands within the competition in another public online voting system, which they won.
The EP was released as RockSound's CD cover mount on 2 February and had a CD-ROM which contained the band's progress throughout the RBBJ competition.