Luke Haines later wrote: “The initial plan is to record with Steve Albini, but this never happens.

Two live recordings appear on the B-side: “Bad Habits Die Hard” (otherwise unrecorded), and “It’s My Turn” (the Servants' previous single); both live tracks were recorded on 4 May 1989 at AJZ Gaskessel in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

The words “in case of Fire break Glass” are etched into the single’s run-out groove: a Westlake comment on record-label Paperhouse resulting from an ill-omened partnership, between Glass Records and Fire Records.

Interviewed in 2014, David Westlake said: “Unfortunately, the album was deleted not long after release.

It hasn’t been available for more than twenty years and I don’t see it being reissued.”[1] Likewise, Luke Haines says Disinterest is “stuck in an irretrievable record company quagmire, where it looks set to remain.”[3] Mojo magazine included Disinterest in its December 2011 list of the greatest British indie records of all time; Clive Prior described the album as “Arty, experimental and notable for Westlake’s fabulously mordant lyrics.”[4] Tim Peacock at Record Collector magazine observed in 2013 that: “while it’s recently been dusted down for critical reappraisal, [Disinterest] remains out of print.”[5] Matthew Fiander at PopMatters called Disinterest “a great record.... Angular and bittersweet.”[6] Luke Haines describes Disinterest as “art rock, ten years too late and fifteen years too early”.