The album features an eclectic mixture of vocalists including Diamanda Galás, Joe Richardson, Douglas McCarthy, Samantha Coerbell, Siobhan Lynch, Toni Halliday, Nicole Blackman, Maggie Estep and Carla Trevaskis.

The tracks on Selected were chosen by Wilder who explained that the collection was made up of "his personal favourites, remastered and edited together into what I consider a cohesive and total listening experience.

[1] We were approached by Alan Wilder in the Spring of 2009, tasked with designing a record sleeve for his latest LP Selected a 25 year retrospective of his Recoil project.

The dark and textural imagery we created became the perfect accompaniment to the brooding, occasionally unsettling nature of his music.In support of the album, Recoil has announced details of an Events tour, A Strange Hour with Alan Wilder & Paul Kendall, with dates across Europe and in the US between March and May 2010.

On October 17, 2010 four remixes have been made available to download for free from the official Recoil website, under a common title Want – The Architect Mixes, in Wave, MP3 and FLAC formats.