It was the first single released from their fifth studio album, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001), on 27 August 2001.

The promotional video, directed by Keir McFarlane, had to be edited in consequence of the 9/11 attacks, which was partly responsible for the single's low chart positions in their native Ireland (number 28) and the United Kingdom (number 89), but it became a top-10 hit in Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

Music producer Marius de Vries was commissioned to remix "Analyse".

The first one, included on KBCO Studio C, Volume 13, was recorded at the Boulder-based radio station KBCO on 16 August 2001,[2] while the second one was recorded at Studio C of the Minneapolis-based radio station KTCZ-FM on 20 August 2001 and included on the Cities 97 Sampler Volume 13.

[citation needed] An edited version, where all airplane images were erased, was sent back to media on 1 October 2001.