The album was released on LP and cassette in September 1983 and peaked at #21 in the UK,[1] and to moderate success throughout Europe but did not chart in the US.

The album includes the singles "There's Something Wrong in Paradise", "The Lifeboat Party", and in the US "If You Wanna Be Happy".

The album includes two covers, "If You Wanna Be Happy" originally recorded by Jimmy Soul in 1963, and a remake of "The Seven Year Itch", a song by August Darnell's previous band Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band.

Vince Ripol describes the album as entertaining, provided listeners have the prerequisite of an acquired taste for the bizarre, often comical travelogues set to exotic pop which represent the essence of Kid Creole & the Coconuts.

[3] Christgau also praises the apparently surface wit of the Kid's lyrical-musical synthesis-pastiche[3] but wants to clarify just what these songs are about.