The Wedding Present's second studio album—and first "proper" album for RCA—came soon after the Ukrainian John Peel Sessions / Українські Виступи в Івана Піла folk music side project.

[7] Technically speaking, only one single was taken from the album, "Kennedy", which provided the band with their first Top 40 hit, reaching #33.

In early 1990, The Wedding Present re-recorded "Brassneck" with Steve Albini,[8][9] which reached #24 in the UK charts.

The US CD version contains the Wedding Present's cover of "Box Elder", an early song by then unknown American band Pavement.

[10] A remastered CD version, released by BMG Camden in 2001, also features the B-sides of the "Kennedy" single, including a cover version of the Tom Jones hit "It's Not Unusual".