Hood's first releases were very limited vinyl singles on various small independent record labels. In 1994, record labels Fluff and
Slumberland Records released Hood's first full-length album,
Cabled Linear Traction. Slumberland also released 1996's ''
Silent '88, and the following year Happy Go Lucky Records released Structured Disasters'', a compilation of tracks from singles. All featured a large number of short tracks (many of less than a minute), a mixture of
indie rock, noise experiments reminiscent of
Sonic Youth or
Pavement, and an increasing interest in electronics. In 1997,
Domino Records signed Hood and released the single "Useless". Produced by
Matt Elliott (better known as the Third Eye Foundation), it was a far more straightforward and tuneful song than any they had released so far. Elliott toured with the band, and produced the albums
Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys and
The Cycle of Days and Seasons. Like the single, these abandoned the short songs and instrumental snippets for longer pieces, with a pastoral sound similar to
Bark Psychosis or
Talk Talk. The band continued to release singles for other labels; "The Weight", for 555 Recordings, was a return to the older style with eight tracks on a 7" disc. Collaborating with friends
Doseone and
Why? from the
Anticon collective, Hood released their fifth album,
Cold House in 2001. The work combined elements of
post-rock,
IDM, and
indie with Doseone and Why?'s lyrical talents and featured the single "You Show No Emotion At All". In 2003, most of the band's single and compilation tracks from the years since
Structured Disasters were collected on
Singles Compiled (a double CD), and
Compilations 1995-2002. Neither contains any of the tracks recorded for Domino, but some unreleased material is included on the singles collection. In early 2005, after additional line-up changes, Hood released
Outside Closer. The tracks 'The Lost You' and 'The Negatives' were released as singles. Since the release of
Outside Closer, Hood has toured with Why? promoting his album
Elephant Eyelash and released various remixes: including 'The Negatives' with vocals by British
MC Jehst. Chris also has a solo side project called
Bracken, and in 2007 released the album
We Know About the Need on
Anticon. In 2007 Richard Adams formed a side project
The Declining Winter, releasing a 7" single,
The Future Sound of Hip Hop parts 1 & 2, and an album
Goodbye Minnesota and further albums on a variety of labels. In 2012,
Domino Records released a six disc compilation
box set called
Recollected to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of
Cold House. == Discography ==