[9] Some contributions came from ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist Billy Burnette; Robbie Patton, who co-wrote Fleetwood Mac's 1982 hit "Hold Me" with McVie; George Hawkins, ex-member of Mick Fleetwood's Zoo in the mid-1980s, and McVie's ex-husband Eddy Quintela.

[11] McVie stated that with the exception of a couple songs, all of the album's material documented her relationship with this individual that she met in London who was neither well-known nor associated with music.

Debuting and peaking at number 32 on the US Independent Albums chart, it had sold around 20,000 copies in the United States up until 2005, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

In a 2014 interview in the Los Angeles Times taken after her returning to Fleetwood Mac, McVie stated about the album that "It had some good songs on it, but I went about it all wrong.

Perfect had worked with McVie prior to her death in November 2022 on a Dolby Atmos mix of In the Meantime.