From Gardens Where We Feel Secure

She recorded church bells, birdsong, lambs and a gate in the countryside around Moulsford and South Stoke on a hired Uher tape machine in April to June 1982, then overdubbed at a home studio in Moulsford and heavily manipulated the tape, speeding, slowing and reversing it. The music was improvised; she told her own interviewer that sound effects came first on every track, and that she wanted this really heavy-with-summer atmosphere, with Eno's Music for Airports a stronger influence than Satie. Russell Webb played guitar and co-produced, Jo Wells played clarinet on "Hiding in the Ha-Ha", and Emma and Aminta Townshend sang backing vocals. Side one is Morning and side two Afternoon, and the titles come from W. H. Auden's poem A Summer Night.

Zoo Records asked for it and then vanished, and WEA wanted it re-recorded, which she judged impossible, so she self-funded it and has always owned it; Geoff Travis released it on Rough Trade. It reached four on the UK independent albums chart. Smash Hits gave it 8.5 out of 10, Uncut about four stars, Pitchfork 8.4 in 2021 and Sputnikmusic 4.5; Pitchfork ranked it 147th on its best albums of the 1980s. The Guardian said in 2003 that it foreshadowed chillout.