[3][4] Following his previous album, Lexicon, released in 2019, Young wanted to highlight female artists he admired, saying, "After 18 years of recording and performing a lot of original material, I loved the idea of creating an album that celebrates some of the modern female artists I so admire in pop.

I wanted to understand what it might be like to sing their lyrics; a song about a boy called Daniel; crying on the bathroom floor, feeling like Elizabeth Taylor.

[9] David Smyth from Evening Standard found that "leftfield pop artists such as Muna, Lykke Li and Sky Ferreira deserve the wider attention they may get from Young making their music more Radio 2 friendly.

In most cases, with the help of regular production collaborator Richard X, he's made electronic originals sound a bit more organic, with lots of piano, a bit of guitar and his high, sad, soulful voice [...] If this album serves to direct his mainstream fanbase towards the superior originals, it will have done a worthwhile job.

[10] Roisin O'Connor remarked that "the fact he is able to celebrate his sexuality now means these songs transcend the bog-standard cover version and become something far more moving [...] It's testament to Young’s emotional maturity, along with his pop savvy, that this does stand as an album in its own right.