The material on the album was largely recorded at the Los Angeles home studio of producer and Peopletree label head David Turin.

Milla Jovovich and her frequent collaborator Chris Brenner were invited by producer David Turin (also known as Emit Bloch, and credited on The Peopletree Sessions as H. Loops) to work on music with him after being introduced to Turin by his wife Kate Garner, who had previously worked with Jovovich on some photography shoots.

The second, labeled as the UK edition and issued by Cherry Red Records subsidiary Sidewinder Sounds, has a different orange cover art and adds the tracks "Hi, It's Milla", "Loose Weight", and "Queen of the Parade", while omitting the remix of "House of Spiders".

[11] In a review for AllMusic, Dave Sleger described The Peopletree Sessions as "a 180-degree turnaround" from Jovovich's 1994 debut album The Divine Comedy, with a "do-it-yourself, in-home approach" and "dark, electro-urban, dadaistic" sound.

[6] Following its 2000 reissue, the album was chosen as the "Pop CD of the week" by The Guardian, whose critic Betty Clarke called it "so barking, it's great", while also noting, "The Sessions tag is a good indication of the half-finished nature of most of these songs, the experimental and just-having-a-laugh vibe the project has.