[1] All three tracks were generally recorded live at BBC Studio 5, Maida Vale, London.

[2] The first two songs, "Bright Lights, Big City" and "Monkey On My Back", deal directly with David McComb’s drug abuse[citation needed] and are infused with bitterness and desperation.

"[3] McComb later said, "When we got to London I think we sort of felt we had to make a kind of statement.

"[4] "Evil" Graham Lee noted the EP was, "a psychodrama from beginning to end, with a ferocious, partly improvised maelstrom of a sound to match the tortured, twisted and sometimes very funny lyrics.

Nothing The Triffids had done to this point could have prepared listeners for the onslaught of Field Of Glass.