Lyrics to the song "Horse Nation" are taken almost verbatim from the non-fiction book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970).

The music of the album is characterized as dramatic, moody, dark psychedelic, with "crystalline guitar not that far off from what U2 was going after".

This pressing was to include the original version of "Go West (Crazy Spinning Circles)" which uses a psychedelic phasing on the end choruses.

Only a small handful of white label test pressings were made of this record before the band decided they didn't like that version.

The re-recording of "Go West (Crazy Spinning Circles)" was done at Livingston Recording Studios on 22 June 1984.

"Sea and Sky" was the original B-side of "Go West (Crazy Spinning Circles)" and "Ressurection Joe" (not spelled in the correct form "Resurrection Joe" but intentionally misspelled) was a new single recorded in November 1984 and released on 14 December 1984.

In 2003, the album was remastered and reissued on CD in the Russian Federation, Belarus and Lithuania with the three bonus tracks and different artwork.

The Japanese LP features a photo of the band on the front cover, instead of the original artwork.

On the original Canadian vinyl pressing and cassette, the track listing is re-arranged for unknown reasons: Credits are adapted from the Dreamtime liner notes.