The album was recorded in 1981 with core member Steven Stapleton being joined by drummer Trevor Reidy and J. G. Thirlwell of Foetus for the track "Absent Old Queen Underfoot".

He told David Keenan that the album was "dreadful" and "a pile of shit", stating that "making that record was the worst mistake of my life".

Keenan declares the record to be nowhere near as bad as Stapleton suggests but agrees that it is a less disciplined album than those immediately surrounding it.

When Stapelton heard this master, he found he was happy with the sound quality and that the album was not as bad as his memory had led him to believe.

The original LP release was pressed in an edition of 1000 with a small overrun of 10 copies coming in handmade sleeves.

The 2007 CD edition used the aforementioned remaster by Kevin Spencer and came as a standard CD in digipak covered with a plastic slipcase with Stapleton's sleevenote and a special edition with a framed and mounted insect in a box signed by Stapleton.