In 1996, Tikaram left WEA, her label of eight years, and spent some time pursuing other interests than music, including art and travel.

The pair's collaboration resulted in an album with a distinctively poppier, more electronic sound than Tikaram's earlier folk-rock releases.

She added that "Amore Si" has a "very kitsch, melodramatic love story", and "Back in Your Arms" and "If I Ever" are "straight European pop songs, with a twist".

[2] "I Don't Want to Lose at Love" samples the 1992 song "Seelinnikoi" by the Finnish folk music band Värttinä, who receive a co-writing credit.

The Italian and Japanese pressings of the album featured "And I Think of You - E penso a te" as a bonus track, and it was released as a promotional single in Italy in late 1998.

She added that the use of "sharp Latin horns, bumpy percussion and silky strings is an attractive change from the guitar-shaped blandness of before".

[6] Neil Mason of Melody Maker gave the album zero stars out of five, writing: "Even the coffee tables of the world are running for the hills [...] Eighties jokers Blancmange managed a better job.