It is Barlow's first full-length solo album in fourteen years, following 1999's Twelve Months, Eleven Days.

I turned back time and was listening to Johnny Cash and early Elton John before I wrote 'Let Me Go'.

"[5] Barlow cites that after the release of Twelve Months, Eleven Days, he stopped singing as he walked away from the limelight.

"[6] Barlow further elaborated, "The last album I made was so laden with people telling me who I should sound like that I listen back now and think 'Who's that?

Williams poached "Candy" and "Different" for his Take the Crown album, whilst Barlow acquired the remaining numbers for Since I Saw You Last.

It became the fastest selling album of 2013 to miss out on the top spot, while also selling more copies in its first week than Barlow's Take That bandmate Robbie Williams' album Swings Both Ways, which sold 109,000 copies the previous week to claim the top spot.

[19] Conversely, Observer writer Hermione Hoby gave a one-star review in which she said that the album serves to provide "sonic reference points" for "how unassailably uncool" Barlow is.