Spencer decided to present his songs in the familiar format of a television series/DVD box set with albums titled Episode(s) 1–6, which he believed would surmount the problem of many disparate ideas.
The first album grouped Spencer's simpler songs that took influence from a basic rock palette using only drums, bass and guitar and elementary arrangements.
Earlier that year Spencer, Black and friends formed the label Businessman Records, with the initial limited edition release of the vinyl-only "A Title Sparks Would Have Used" single in September.
The band spent the next year touring and recording, producing a free download-only single "A Paler Shade of Wit" the following September, compared favourably by The Guardian to "…Television covering 'Like a Virgin'".
The album was said to be a mix of musicals, baroque pop and minimalist composition and features a 14-piece band of multi instrumentalists[4] including additional singers Becky Wood and Sophie Cochrane and cellist Beth Gibson (who also played as the group Barefoot Dance of the Sea), along with violinist Katy Rowe (who also performs as part of the Mavron Quartet), Dan McGinn (trumpet), Tina Hitchens (flute) – who is a co-founder of modern classical ensemble Cardiff New Music Collective – Avvon Chambers (drums) and Stephen Black (bass).