[1] Music from the track "Heal It" was used for Sky Sports' coverage of the UEFA Champions League,[2] while "Glockenspiel Song" had been featured in an episode of Skins.

[3] After signing to Atlantic Records, the band entered RAK Studios to begin work on their debut album with producer David Kosten.

Recording for the album was completed there, with production coming from studio owner/ producer Guy Elderfield and Dog Is Dead's singer Rob Milton.

[4] The cover of the album features a collage of 1970s schoolchildren walking along a suburban pathway, unwittingly approaching a black hole.

[3] The NME was less complimentary, lamenting the loss of the band's early, rougher sound which it considered had been replaced by "earnest but uninspiring anthemic rock".