100 shows were planned to promote the album; by the time they made it to the US, line-up issues were causing tension with the band, in addition to lower ticket sales than anticipated.

He moved back to the band's hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand to deal with a myriad of legal and contractual issues that were leftover.

At the middle of the year, Phillipps had relocated to Auckland, where he created a new band, featuring bassist Steven Shaw, drummer Jonathan Armstrong of Book of Martyrs and keyboardist Dominic Blazer.

Christened Martin Phillipps & the Chills, the band planned to travel to London, England to work on an album in July 1995.

"[7] Author Dave Thompson, in his book Alternative Rock (2000), called it a "solid, but not too memorable collection scarred by the inadvertent loss of [Phillipps's] entire band.