The band freed their foremost only, "A Drop In The Ocean", independently. It were signed to Red Eye Records owned by John Foy & a number 1 only was reissued across Red Eye. Their next 2 singles, "Wholy Holy" & "Benefit Of The Doubt", were moderate indie hits on the small however enthusiatic east coast Australian scene. Fallowing the line higher vary & the departure of Craig Moore, Russell Kilbey took higher duties in guitar & vocals & Luke Blackburn, a Melbourne musician, joined as bassist & vocalizer.

Red Eye Records signed the distribution treat sustaining Polydor Australia in 1990. A Crystal Placed freed their next album Virtually Pure under this label & experienced moderate profits sustaining a singles, "Thrive" & "She Spits Out Stars" within 1991. Their Red Eye/Polydor labelmates were The Cruel Sea, The Clouds, Steve Kilbey (Russell's brother & lead singer and bassist from either successful Eighties Australian band The Church), Jack Frost (aka Steve Kilbey) and Grant McLennan (The Go-Betweens), The Bhagavad Guitars, Curious (Yellow) and The Beasts of Bourbon.

A Crystal Placed disbanded at a prevent of 1991. Russell Kilbey went in to collaborate by using David Thrussell from either techno-industrial outfit Snog in a band known as Sex Industrie, doing a cover song of the classic AC/DC song "Jailbreak".