The album was recorded at Lisa Stansfield's Gracieland Studios in Rochdale between December 2002 and January 2003 with producer Grant Showbiz.

[1] The subtitle is explained by the fact that the tracks were originally scheduled for release in April 2003 under the title Country on the Click.

", which, from 2005, was used for several years as the theme music to the Final Score section of BBC television's Saturday afternoon sports coverage.

In 2006, Smith was also invited to read out the classified football results on the BBCi interactive service "Score"; this performance was in turn released by the Sonic Arts Network on their Stewart Lee-compiled album The Topography of Chance.

[5] Alex Linhardt of Pitchfork called it "as valuable an album as anything The Fall ever released in the 1990s" and stated that "Smith's lyrics are at a near career-best of insolence and nonsense.

[16] The American release is remastered, features an alternate cover and abbreviates the titles of several tracks, although most are identical to their UK counterparts.