Becoming X

Mixing was by Jim Abbiss and Flood, with Mark Spike Stent and Nellee Hooper on some tracks. Kelli Dayton sings and plays guitars, Corner plays guitars and keyboards, Howe produced and played keyboards, guitars, drums, samples and programming, Joe Wilson plays bass and Dave Westlake drums and programming, and Marius de Vries and Andy Wright added programming. "How Do" is a cover of Paul Giovanni's "Willow's Song". Singles were "Tesko Suicide", "Roll On", "6 Underground", "Spin Spin Sugar" and "Post-Modern Sleaze". AllMusic's Erlewine called it one of the most engaging byproducts of post-Portishead trip-hop and Pitchfork's Schreiber an electrified version of Sade; Pitchfork scored it 6.3, AllMusic 4 of 5, Rolling Stone 3 and NME 5 of 10. Vinyl reissues followed in 2008, 2016 and 2020.