 James Johnston's solo album The Starless Room was released through Clouds Hill Recordings in November 2016.The album features contributions from Gallon Drunk drummer Ian White.The band's sound was described by Robert Hanks in "The Independent" as "dark, bluesy, grinding noise characterised by dense textures, low, mumbling bass guitar and keyboards, and liberal applications of whammy bar to the electric guitar, the whole thing oddly underpinned by maracas".