Produced by David Grant, Peter Martin and Bob Carter of the group, the record followed the popular success of their UK hit single "You're Lying", which features on the album, and incorporates styles beyond funk music, such as rock, jazz and soul.

The album's appearance in 1981 saw Linx ride the popularity of Britfunk in the United Kingdom, where they were among the scene's most successful acts alongside Level 42 and Freeez.

Although a studio-only band at this point, Linx played a live showcase for record company scouts, none of whom felt the group had any hit single material.

[4] By spring 1980, the group – who had returned to a duo of Grant and Martin – added guitarist Canute Edwards, keyboardist Bob Carter and drummer Andy Duncan.

[1][2] It became popular at discos, where it was played by Greg Edwards, and in turn was picked upon by Chrysalis Records, who had not seen the group's earlier live showcase,[4] and who had no prior experience with releasing black music.

"[4] Chrysalis subsequently released "You're Lying" commercially and it became a hit,[3] reaching number 15 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1980,[6] and the group became recognised as players in London's nascent Britfunk movement, alongside Light of the World.

[7] Intuition is a Britfunk album,[8] but moves beyond simply funk and incorporates elements of pop, disco, jazz, rock and calypso,[9] and emphasises a spontaneous feel.

[10] Writer David Hepworth emphasised Linx's intention to make pop music, saying it was primarily a pop record instead of "funk or disco or black music or any of those other marketing handles,"[5] while journalist Mary Harron refers to the record as a sharp and "intelligent" jazz-funk album that exemplifies how British examples of the genre were becoming "livelier" than American jazz-funk.

[11] Robert Palmer of The New York Times writes that several songs on the album owe more to Linx's influence of American funk bands like the Commodores and Kool and the Gang, whereas others feature a distinctive British flavour.

[12] "I Won't Forget" is a detour into reggae pop; Palmer described it as "a black answer to the white group that pioneered the style, the Police.

"[15] The album's appearance in 1981 was during a year where Britfunk became popular in Britain, with fellow acts like Level 42 and Freeez also achieving notice,[14] and joining Linx and others like Central Line and the RAH Band in helping turn the sound into a movement, following the slightly earlier work of Hi-Tension and Light of the World.

[6] The success of the title track was aided by a technician's strike on Top of the Pops that resulted in only repeat performances and music videos being aired on the show for a period.

[25] Sunie Fletcher of Record Mirror, who expressed prior unfamiliarity with Britfunk, praised Linx's tight sound and performance and Grant's "remarkable voice", describing the album as "sophisticated but never slick; danceable but never dumb".

"[11] A reviewer for Musician, Player and Listener described Linx as the "new face of Black British funk" and called Intuition a "steamy gumbo of snappy songhooks, rhythms that shake you by the scruff of the neck, and socio-political passion that has a lot more to do with the punk protest of the Clash than it does the cosmological parables of Earth, Wind and Fire.