The band was founded in 2013, after Pepino was recruited to provide vocals on Freeman and Vella's musical project. Their first track as a group, "Cry No More", was posted to
SoundCloud independently in 2013; it gathered 100,000 plays within its first week. Their debut single, "Premonitions", was released in 2014 by
independent record label National Anthem. They released their first
EP,
Vultures, later in the same year. In 2015, they released single "One Last Night", which later appeared on the motion picture soundtrack for
Fifty Shades of Grey. This was followed by a re-issue of "Cry No More". They released their second EP, also titled
Cry No More, on 31 July 2015. Pepino appeared on
Gorgon City single, "All Four Walls", in March 2016. Vaults' single "Midnight River", released in July 2016, was named Single of the Week by
The Guardian. The
London Evening Standard reported in April 2016 that Vaults' music videos had gathered a combined 20 million views without having released an album. They also performed the music for the 2016
John Lewis Christmas advert, with a cover of
Randy Crawford's "
One Day I'll Fly Away". The band collectively announced the decision to split on 25 May 2017 on their official Facebook page, citing the loss of a creative spark for the band. Pepino now performs with the band Mesadorm (originally founded in 2015), who released debut album,
Heterogaster, on 11 May 2018, while Ben Vella formed the band Child of the Parish, with his brother Tom and the artist Pius Bak. In June 2024, 38-year-old Blythe Pepino was credited with her first solo hit after the
Sonny Fodera's track "Mind Still", on which she is the featured vocalist, moved into the Top 75 at number 74. == Personal lives ==