This is the first 'proper' album of tracks by the lads, recorded at Lynden House in Coventry in the winter of 1988 and the spring of 1989. Vocalist Simon Daley joins the original foursome Bez, Simon, Jim and John on Aiken Drum's first ever studio recording, PC Thompson 619. (Well, we say studio, the vocals were actually recorded in a bathroom. With the bath half-full, as according to Bez that improves the reverb).
Other session musicians include Mary-Jane Brown, who not only wrote A Piano Piece for the album, but also played the haunting flute melody on Sandfish and can just about be heard in the melee of backing vocals on Postcard From Coventry, and Mike Walbank who played the Edge-inspired guitar line on To You (2U, U2, see what they've done there?).