The album was put together by Alan McGee's Poptones label as a starting point for mainstream listeners (as they would later do for the Hives with Your New Favourite Band).

The album spawned four singles including the UK top 40 hits "Revolution (In the Summertime?)"

Most of the tracks on the album were recorded by Wylie and Fleming in a community funded recording studio in Glasgow's Castlemilk housing scheme and released on two self-financed albums; Deliverance (1999) and Panorama (2000).

[2] These albums were critically well received and sold out their initial pressings but the limited distribution and lack of promotion meant they did not cross over to a wide audience.

On hearing Panorama, Alan McGee signed the band to a one-album deal.