Prior to the recording of the album, the group had expanded to a five-piece with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown.

We arrived on the first day of the session to find Craig behind a bank of keyboards filling the control room, programming the drums, bass and organ lines.

"[3] With much of the recording budget spent on two songs, the remaining sessions with a new producer were hurried and the band was unhappy with the initial results.

And so Dicky didn't do a good job I think on Tallulah, so it had to be rescued and remixing a little but which always sounds horrible but it actually worked out okay with Mark Wallis.

The quartet's a quintet now, up one violin, which may not seem like much but does serve to reinforce the hooks that have never been a strength of their understated, ever more explicit tales from the bourgeois fringe.