Although she wrote many of the most acclaimed songs on the album, including "Overture From Kurious Oranj", "Van Plague?"

I Am Kurious Oranj was intended as the soundtrack for the ballet I Am Curious, Orange, a collaboration with the dancer Michael Clark.

A live version was recorded during an Edinburgh Festival performance of the ballet, and issued in 2000 as I Am as Pure as Oranj.

The opening track "New Big Prinz" (as well as its alternative version, "Big New Priest") is lyrically based on "Hip Priest" from the group's 1982 album Hex Enduction Hour; the original track was also used in the ballet as a backing tape.

NME wrote "[The Fall have] retained the power to surprise, to provoke and occasionally outrage that only The Smiths could pretend to possess in the '80s.