[4] The album was the band's first after the departure of founding vocalist/rapper Del Larkin, who quit to pursue a career in Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Bassist Dean Sutherland told the Herald Sun the lineup change forced a reshaping of the band's sound from funk-influenced hip hop to robust electronic soul.

"I love hip hop, but with Del leaving, we weren't going to try and fill his shoes by getting another rapper, so we just continued without him.

"[5] The band conceived and developed many of the tracks while touring in Europe in early 1997 and said the sound bore some European influences.

"We get a lot of our musical ideas from sound checks," guitarist Warwick Scott told The Age.