Although Tibet never moved to the country, he made a number of visits, released an album with Sveinbjörn's rímur singing titled Edda and collaborated with HÖH over several years.

Some of HÖH's compositions for the album were also used on his soundtrack for the 1991 Icelandic film Children of Nature, directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson.

"The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke" uses quotations from the 17th-century treatise The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by the philosopher Jeremy Taylor.

[3] Andreas Diesel and Dieter Gerten wrote that Island stands out in Current 93's discography due to HÖH's musical influence, characterised by "symphonic synthesizer sounds and hypnotic percussion".

Otherwise, Keenen said the album suffers from "a nasty new age sheen, complete with a Lou Reed-like bass sound redolent of the mating calls of whales", and that the bonus tracks from the CD drag it down.