We wanted this record to be less psychedelic than the last one, and there's less guitars on it.They choose to work with The Automator because of what he'd done with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Hubert Sumlin joined the band in the studio, though he didn't appear in the final recording.

Some songs in Cadogan's words: Just Wanna Play is dedicated to some friends of mine who got burned by a record label, Bailing Out was just a string of thoughts I wrote while we were on tour with DJ Format – 23 dates in 24 days: I'd forgotten about it, then played it in rehearsals, and this kind of bastardised Bo Diddley thing came out.

Yeah We Know is just a string of thoughts on things I saw leaning out of a window where I used to live, the Marquis Estate in Islington, which was pretty notorious but we never had any problems.

Green Eyed Fool is about a bit of jealousy and cynicism you get from people who haven't had the balls to do things for themselves.