A handful of demos, three EPs, a 7" record and three years of shows later, Cables & Arms released their first full-length album, Framing Defeat For the Critical Eye. Described by Ear To the Ground Music as one of "the more aggressively confident and destructive bands on the entire left coast," the band was in light rotation on SiriusXM's Jason Ellis Show after emerging at the top of an Unsigned Bands segment in April, 2015 (with the song Setup, on the Bygone EP). Cables & Arms subsequently signed to Wiretap Records in March 2016.