All music was recorded on a 4-track cassette machine under the guidance of Alex Fergusson, an original co-founder of the group, with Genesis P-Orridge.

Cleopatra Records re-released the album in 1994 as "Genesis P-Orridge & Psychic TV – Pagan Day", with a cover incorrectly noting the original release date as 25 December 1986 (CLEO94692).

The 14 songs include two untitled fragments originally released as a seven-inch single with early copies of the album, and most of them have a clearly defined musical logic and progression.

Fans of Psychic TV's more out-there work might find this distressingly restrained, but it's a remarkable performance nonetheless.

"[3] Pitchfork, reviewing the 2017 re-issue noted that Pagan Day (1984) and Allegory and Self (1988) represent extremities in the early Psychic TV catalog—the former was once the rarest and rawest of their recordings, the latter was their most pop-oriented and commercially successful.