Released debut single

Gray and Garside were joined by drummer Billy Freedom and bassist Orson Wajih and released their debut single, “X-ing Off the Days” / “Heavenly Surrender” on 25 October 1999. The band subsequently released their first studio album, Taxidermy , in early 2000, on the Blanco y Negro Records imprint. Some of the material featured on the album, namely the track “X-ing Off the Days,” was written solely by Gray in the years following the breakup of Daisy Chainsaw. NME gave the album a positive review, writing: “While carrying on Daisy Chainsaw’s predilection for rock as infantile nightmare, here the scope is much wider than a one-track take on banshee pop. There are some obvious precedents, notably Björk and PJ Harvey , but much more than either of those two reference points, this debut album is frequently akin to eavesdropping on psychotherapy.”