It was released on August 31, 2001 by Dark Symphonies, alongside its companion album Leaving Your Body Map.

Bath and Leaving Your Body Map, alongside introducing brand new songs, rearranges and re-orchestrates demo material first written in 1997.

All songs on both albums were recorded simultaneously, in order to achieve consistency; to this end, the opening of "Girl With a Watering Can" re-orchestrates the first melody of "The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qliphoth," and the series of instrumental interludes sequenced in order of appearance across both albums.

The melody of the fourth (and final) interlude purportedly came from a lucid dream, fulfilling a stated objective of the project.

The band inserted clues to a hidden secret in the liner notes of the albums through a series of complex symbols; to aid listeners, they recorded and released "The Secret Song" on an MCD in 2001, with lyrics purported to explain how to unlock the hidden message.