With the departure of Alan Rankine and bassist Michael Dempsey, the Associates were effectively a Billy MacKenzie solo project for this album.

MacKenzie started work with Steve Reid, a guitarist from Dundee and Howard Hughes, an accomplished keyboardist in late 1982 after the departure of Rankine and came up with an album's worth of material.

The recording sessions were chaotic, and the resulting album was deemed unreleasable by Warner Music Group, who demanded further work be carried out on the project.

However, due to the reissue program of Associates material after MacKenzie's death, it was re-released along with the unreleased The Glamour Chase album in a double CD package in 2002.

Trouser Press wrote "To write it off with a snide 'perhaps not' would be a cheap shot, but more than generous", calling it "undanceable dance music with a few ho-hum twists.