Working for a Nuclear Free City (album)

The writing for self-titled as well as their subsequent release, Businessmen & Ghosts, was made up of songs that were made since the band formed in 1999 with about 80 or so tracks being written.^[3]

Before writing officially began, Phil Kay used to make hip-hop beats by himself for a few years. Eventually, he moved on to making “weird soundtrack-like pieces” before later applying a more guitar based sound to his work with Gary. Soon vocal tracks were later added and they would also begin to incorporate various genres into their writing such as electronica, krautrock, shoegaze and neo-psychedelia beyond their initial atmospherics.^[4]

Production took place in various locations with “each place [having] its own different influence on [them].” Songs were written rather quickly with specific musical influences switching from one day to another.^[5] The album would still be described as being very "together" in a BBC interview.^[3]

When asked about how the audience would react to the album, McClure would respond with “I have no idea. We really have lost all track of people and music at the moment. We really isolated ourselves making this album, and we are finding it hard to re-adjust.”^[3]