The band was formed in 2012 by Burke and Waters, who first met each other in a bar and began recording demo songs based on files of song ideas Burke recorded on her
iPhone. The 2016 album was shortlisted for both the
Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year and the
2017 Polaris Music Prize in 2017, as well as garnering a
SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for the song "Shithole". The band's second full-length album,
Wide Open, was released on October 6, 2017. It was shortlisted for Alternative Album of the Year at the
Juno Awards of 2018. In 2018, they received another SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for the song "Walkaway", and the album was a shortlisted finalist for the
2018 Polaris Music Prize. As of 2025, Weaves had not been gathered since spring 2020, according to Spencer. ==Discography==