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Recorded in March 1993 and mixed the next month at Moles Studio in Bath, with Rob Aubrey engineering, it was the first IQ album with John Jowitt on bass and the first with Nicholls since his return. The band had lost Les Marshall, and Nicholls and Holmes had both lost their fathers; Leo Trimming of The Progressive Aspect wrote that this clearly shaped the music and words. Nicholls remembered the band re-establishing itself, and the music coming naturally. Nicholls again made the cover.

Prog reported that many fans name it the band's best work, and a Prog Archives reviewer heard some of the most energetic music of their career. Readers of SI magazine voted it album of 1993, though one fan reviewer in 1994 found it very good in places rather than a classic. A double vinyl issue followed much later, and the 2018 25th anniversary edition brought a remix by Holmes, with Neil Durant re-programming Orford's keyboard parts because they had not been saved to the original tapes, along with a full live performance from the Colos-Saal in Aschaffenburg.