Forster had recently moved to Bavaria to be with his future wife, Karin Bäumler, who appeared on the album.

Musicians on the album included Bad Seeds Hugo Race and Thomas Wydler.

Thomas would listen to a demo; Mick, on bass, would talk him through the arrangement; we'd go into the recording room, play the song no more than four times, do a take, and then go on to the next number.

[6] For the cover of the album, Forster was photographed in a similar to pose to a picture of James Joyce he'd found in a library in Ravensburg University, where Bäumler was studying, after he noted the resemblance to his grandfather.

"I decided to replicate the photo for the cover and make no mention of it; just send it out in the world and see what people made of it.