[1][3][4] Frontman Nigel Clark lived in a flat in Primrose Hill with his pregnant wife; he wrote new material and demoed songs on a TASCAM four-track recorder.

[6] Free Peace Sweet was produced by Hugh Jones at Wessex Sound Studios in London with engineer Robin Evans.

[8] The close proximity also enabled Clark to spend evenings writing more material with the intention of showing the other members his work the very next day.

Jones did the mixes with engineer Helen Woodward, before the album was mastered by Ian Cooper at Metropolis Studios with digital editing done by Crispin Murray.

[7] Free Peace Sweet is a Britpop album that takes influence from the works of Beastie Boys, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Dr.

Janet Ramus and Michele Douglas of the London Community Gospel Choir sung additional vocals on "You've Gotta Look Up", "If You're Thinking of Me" and "Prey for Drinking".

[7][9] The track was an example of Clark coming up with the chorus and version lyrics and drummer Matthew Priest would help finish them; Miller said this happened previously with the Homegrown songs "Making the Most Of..." and "So Let Me Go Far".

"Jack the Lad" dated from five years prior, when their manager once sent the band to a farmhouse in Hendre-Ddu, Wales, where they came up with the basic form of the song.

[10] Consumable Online writer Tim Kennedy said the song's lyrics "appear to refer to a certain lad's excess and bad behaviour leading to the inevitable".

[14] Miller thought Clark had his son in mind when writing "Long Life", alongside Animal Farm (1944) by George Orwell.

[21] Between July and September 1996, the band embarked on The Summer Big Top Trip tour across the UK, which included an appearance on the main stage of the Reading Festival, with a variety of supporting acts.

[20] Dodgy's co-manager Dave Crompton commented that Mercury planned on releasing a single first but the band was against it, saying: "We think their attitude was, 'We'll put it out and see what happens,' and we said, 'We want to have a career.

'"[20] The band eventually parted ways with Mercury; Crompton and partner Andrew Winters were aiming to find a new label to release the album later in the year.

[33] "In a Room", "If You're Thinking of Me", "Good Enough", "Ain't No Longer Asking" and "Found You" were included on the band's first compilation album Ace A's + Killer B's (1999).

[37] NME writer Paul Moody thought it was an "exact DNA progression" from their previous two releases; he noted that while there was a variety of musical influences, the album "never threatens to be anything other than a superior example of Bandus Britpopus".

[11] Melody Maker journalist Caitlin Moran said the album had "enough eclecticism" throughout the songs to "keep even the most gnat-brained, Tartrazine-addled pop-kid stuck in for the full 64 minutes".

[14] Kevin Courtney of The Irish Times said the band had "traded in their fried out old transit van in a hid to get a seat on the bright, shiny Britpop bus, and there's no longer a faint whiff of Crust wafting in the air around them".

[12] In his collection The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Colin Larkin considered it a "solid album containing some memorable songs", though it "fell short of the greatness that many had expected".

[38] Free Peace Sweet charted at number seven in the UK, being certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in November 1996.