The duo, Blue Hawaii's EP, Blooming Summer reflected the pair’s travels in Central America. Eventually Ra (Raphaelle Standell-Preston) returned to her role in BRAIDS, touring constantly, while Ag (Alex "Agor" Cowan) moved to Europe, treading deeper into dance music, electronics, and production. The two decided to make Untogether in 2012. Following their winter in Canada, their music became colder, more introspective. It again captured a time and place, but instead of a dense saturation of love and excitement, this record reflects the vast world of self-awareness and delicacy. It takes for its subject the question of belonging, despite overwhelming space. It contains the vast space of two years passing, including watching their Montreal scene change as some launched into international success and others turned deeper inwards. The duo noticed that throughout the changing social and personal landscape of one’s twenties, these divided notions and people somehow stay together. It is because – or perhaps in spite of – these disjointed intersections that the record is called Untogether.