The album was released by Leather Apron on CD and digital download and as a limited edition set containing one track on a phonographic wax cylinder.
[1][2] The album was renamed in January 2012, after EMI gave the band three days to change the title or face legal action.
[3] The album was released commercially on 24 May 2010 on the band's own music label, Leather Apron, mainly as a CD and as a digital download.
[4][5] The editor of Steampunk Magazine, Ms C. Allegra Hawksmoor, said that one of the reasons for creating the cylinders was that "Wax cylinders are one of the first forerunners of recording technology, they're a piece of history that has been lost in the ceaseless drive for progress, and it's really nice to be doing something to bring a little of that back."
[6] Hawksmoor claims that the idea for creating the wax cylinder was from the band member Andy Heintz.
The version of the song released on phonographic cylinder is a 'straight' recording without sound effects or digital manipulation.
The album is filled with guitar-and-drum-driven cockney punk songs, complete with the musical saw and comedy lyrics that have made the Men notorious.