2014: Byron to Berlin After forming in 2014, the band moved to Berlin. The band notes watching a video in high school of band
The Whitest Boy Alive performing in a shop window in
Mitte, Germany as influential to the move, saying that the "huge crowd on the street [...] was super cool". Berlin is known for its culture of music creativity being a hub for new wave, techno, electro, and hip-hop in addition to its distinctive subculture flair. The lure of existing in the German city's melting-pot of music and culture has attracted many international artists including
David Bowie and
Nick Cave, two artists which Parcels has said are influential to their sound. The band lived in a small one-bedroom apartment for the first three months with "three [band members] on the bed two on the couch". For almost the entire first year in Berlin the band did not play any live shows. The EP has six listed tracks and was an independent release made with a single condenser mic. which signed the band in 2015. In April 2016, Parcels played their first show in France at
Paris' Les Bains bar with Daft Punk in the audience. Daft Punk invited Parcels to their studio. The band showed Daft Punk an early demo of "
Overnight" which they agreed to work on. On 21 June 2017, Parcels released single "
Overnight" with production and co-writing credits from Daft Punk's
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and
Thomas Bangalter. The single entered the French charts at position 62, and remained for 11 weeks. The song ended up being Daft Punk's final song produced together prior to the duo's split in 2021. The single was not listed on the band's following album
Parcels, with the band stating that "including it would've felt dishonest to the rest of the record," noting that the time between recording the tracks on their debut and "Overnight" was two years difference and would taint the historical "snapshot" of the album.
2017: Hideout 27 January 2017, Parcels released their second EP
Hideout, which was the band's first project with Kitsuné and was entirely computer-produced.
Hideout centers around the theme of inner turmoil despite external serenity, which impels the desire to "hide out". The band has linked this concept with their own experience of leaving for Berlin. and French pop band
Phoenix for their European Tour in September of the same year. Both bands are signed to the Kitsuné label.
2018–2019: Parcels Ahead of their debut album, Parcels in April 2018 released the single "
Tieduprightnow", engineered and recorded by British producer, Ed Bentley, at Bakermoon Studios. In July 2018, they released the single "Bemyself", and in September 2018, they released the single "Lightenup" On 12 October 2018, the band released
Parcels, their debut studio album, and including the single 'Tieduprightnow', recorded in Berlin at Bakermoon Studios by Ed Bentley, with Because Music, Kitsuné and Caroline Music. In an interview, Hill said the album's sound was "a little less slick, and a little less disco", and just missed the Triple J
Hottest 100 of 2018, charting at number 103. The single's film clip gave recognition to the band's Byron Bay roots and "play[ed on] the Australian stereotype". The clip was directed by Beatrice Pegard and shows the band driving through their home town and the Australian North Coast, depicting quintessential Australia surf lifestyle and culture. Pegard, for the Australian publication Pilerats, noted the clip was an environmental statement saying, "Northern NSW and Byron Bay are coastal areas that are currently being destroyed by profit-motivated policies and lobbies, and where marine life and ecosystems are disappearing at an alarming rate. The Australian lifestyle as we know it, the joys of summer, of surfing and living by the beach would not be much without its marine ecosystem and wildlife". and Silver in the United Kingdom by the
British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 2025. The band met the former at the
Cannes Film Festival after she has admitted she was a fan. The clip paid homage to classic American slasher films. The fifth single "Tape" is described by the band as a "surf rock inspired electronic pop song about self-affirmation". The film clip premiered 10 April 2019 and was directed by Carmen Crommelin. The clip starred Pearl Spring Voss, playing Penelope, a character seen on the
Parcels album cover. In the film clip Voss is transported from her bedroom to the crowd of Parcels' live performance of the song. The performance was filmed live at Chicago's
Lincoln Hall in one-shot in March 2019. and number 49 on the French album charts.
2020: Live Vol. 1 On 30 April 2020, Parcels released their live studio album,
Live Vol. 1, an 18 track tape recording mixed on an analog console in the
Hansa Studios in Berlin, Alongside the album, Parcels released instrumental tutorials for the song "IknowhowIfeel" to their
Instagram account. Hill said that "it felt very insensitive and not aware to be releasing anything that wasn't in some way connected to the coronavirus ‘cause that was encapsulating everyone's thoughts".
Live Vol. 1 was released with a video of the recording session. Director Carmen Crommelin, also responsible for directing the "Tape" film clip, said in a press release that she "wanted the camera to be both passive and intimate, so you could politely observe from a distance and walk through the room like a friend".
2021–2024: Day/Night On 15 June 2021, Parcels released the single "Free" with an accompanying video directed by Carmen Crommelin. On 28 July 2021, they released the single "Comingback". On 15 September 2021, Parcels released the single "Somethinggreater" alongside an announcement of their second album
Day/Night, a double album, released on 5 November 2021. The band also embarked on a world tour in 2022, with legs in North America, Europe and Australia.
2025: Loved In May 2025, the group released the single "Yougotmefeeling" and announced the release of their third studio album,
Loved, which was released on 12 September 2025. == Musical style ==