It has an autobiographical lyric by Sumner[1] which concerns his youth and growing up, while the music has a groovy shuffle which contrasts with the stricter dance tracks on its parent album Raise the Pressure.

"Second Nature" was first released in the United States as a CD maxi single of DJ remixes in October 1996, then issued commercially by Parlophone in the UK and by Virgin Records in Germany the following February on two CDs and cassette.

Unlike every other commercial Electronic single, no music video was made for "Second Nature", although it was promoted by live performances on TFI Friday and Later... with Jools Holland.

Apart from the "Trance Atlantic Dub" and an edited version of the "Plastik Vox" mix, none of the remixes on the American maxi single have been made commercially available, and the item is extremely rare.

Designed at Fluid by Lee Basford and James Glover, Midge Wrighton from Albrighton, England was the original photographer for Electronic - "Second Nature" (1996).