James Spencer is credited with engineering and mixing on the single, although Alan Meyerson is listed as the mixer in the album sleevenotes.

It was obtained by posting a yellow sheet (which was mailed to people who had sent away a card that came with British copies of "Forbidden City" and Raise the Pressure) together with a payment of £5.

In Mojo magazine Barney Hoskyns wrote: "The languorous melancholy of Sumner's best work with New Order [is] sorely missing here.

Instead we're treated to the drab whiteboy electro-funk of 'Second Nature' and the squiggling acid house synths of 'Until the End of Time', with its collish mantra".

[5] In Q Tom Doyle stated: "There are other moments, such as in 'Until the End of Time', where a high energy backbeat collides with Johnson belting out a 'You’re driving me crazy... oh baby' refrain, and it really is unclear exactly what the duo are on, such is their purposeful labouring of the cliché".