Grand Analog Feat. Kiyomi music video Touch Your Toes (Part 2)
The group started to take shape in the early 2000s when Williams, then fronting Mood Ruff, began digging into his father's record collection and experimenting with less traditional hip hop sounds on his own time. When Mood Ruff broke up following their 2005 album I Do My Own Stunts, Williams officially launched Grand Analog, which he describes as a project designed as much for live performance as for recording, as his primary band. Williams has told the press that "sonically, I knew that I wanted to dig into dub and rock and soul. I’ve always wanted to do that, but years ago I wasn’t free enough upstairs to know that I could."
The band's third album, Modern Thunder, was released on August 20, 2013.