The vocalist Lizzy Plapinger and producer Max Hershenow met at the
Vassar College while studying music. They claim to have done the electronic music class together, but they only became better friends after they graduated in 2010, when Max started contacting Lizzy by e-mail.
On June 2011, the band released an EP called Ghost City USA with the songs'Bones', 'Time Of My Life (Cover) ', 'Strings' and'Ash Tree Lane'. The first single from the band, 'Hurricane', was posted in MS MR's SoundCloud on May 9th, 2012, later that year, they released a new EP: Candy Bar Creep Show was released on September and contains the final version of the songs'Bones' and'Ash Tree Lane, plus the songs'Hurricane' and'Dark Doo Wop'.
At the beginning of 2013, the band released a music video for the song'Fantasy' on youtube, on February 4th. The song, which was released later on iTunes, became the first single of their debut album. 'Secondhand Rapture' was released on May 10th. The song'Hurricane' was rereleased as the second single from the album, as it received a new music video on April 8th.