After spending the years since the split shying away from Cast's music, Power decided it was time to play the songs again, especially with debut album All Change's impending 15th anniversary.

He then got in touch with the other band members: guitarist Liam "Skin" Tyson, bassist Pete Wilkinson and drummer Keith O'Neill.

[4] Following the All Change 15th Anniversary Tour around the U.K. in November and December 2010, the band started work on the new album with fans helping to fund the recording through PledgeMusic, with a percentage of the profits donated to the charity Shelter.

[5] Cast began recording at Real World Studios on 3 May 2011 under the supervision of John Leckie, who had previously produced the band's first two albums, All Change and Mother Nature Calls.

[12] Jamie Atkins of Record Collector was critical of Power being "keen to inform the world that things these days are vaguely not 'alright'" without substantiating as to why, using his "undoubted talent to produce abstract, clichéd drivel to hammer this point home".