Sweater Weather, released in 2012, is one of those songs that somehow keeps getting bigger years after it should have plateaued — it didn't hit No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart until mid-2013, and it wasn't certified eleven-times platinum until a decade after that. The Neighbourhood built an entire identity around it: five guys out of Newbury Park, California, led by Jesse Rutherford, working a moody black-and-white aesthetic that made the song's dark-pop sound feel like a complete visual package rather than just a single.
I Love You., the 2013 album built around that single, launched a run that continued with Wiped Out! in 2015 and a scattered handful of EPs through the rest of the decade, the band's sound staying recognizable even as trends around them cycled through several eras of alt-pop.
Rutherford has split time on solo work too — a pop-leaning project and a more rock-oriented one, both released in the years after the band's Hard EP — without ever fully stepping away from The Neighbourhood itself.