"We'd sent tapes to William Burroughs, and were waiting for him to deliver some spoken word back to us, but he fell ill, and died.

Mr Sifichi sent us a pair of blue underpants he'd found in Paris, so he was the natural person to help us finish off the album.

"[1] At the time of the album's production the band considered itself a "multimedia collective" with members Martin (in charge of creative design and development), Steve Ash (studio production) and Ross Knight (guitar) besides Ken Downie.

"We're essentially a collective in the Warhol 'Factory' sense; we float in and out of the group depending on the projects we're working on, independently or together.

[3] In his review for Pitchfork, Paul Cooper describes Unsavory Products as "a fascinating and multi-layered album" that demands undistracted concentration.