Secrets is the eighth studio album recorded by British synthpop band The Human League. It was issued in 2001 by Papillon Records and was the Human League's first studio album in six years. The album was well-received by critics but performed poorly commercially. Background As on the previous album Octopus, the band was presented as a trio of singers – Philip Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley (credited by her married name Susan Ann Gayle, which she would drop professionally in October 2007) – although band member Neil Sutton contributed songwriting and keyboards. Following the band's short stint with East West Records for their top-ten 1995 album Octopus, they signed to Papillon Records in May 2000 and began recording tracks for the album with production team TOY – featuring former ABC member Dave Clayton, Q and Kerry Hopwood – at the act's studio in Sheffield. In a Guardian interview to promote the record, Oakey spoke of the personal difficulties that he and Sulley experienced during the nineties. Both had medicated with Prozac to cope. He said: Secrets has "the overall feeling of mental illness about it". The album contains sixteen tracks, seven of which are short, transitional instrumentals. "I was probably more happy with that album than with any other," Oakey said in 2003. Release The album was released in the UK 6 August 2001. It opened on the UK Albums Chart at number 44, selling only 4,143 copies in its first week. It is their joint-lowest charting UK album along with Credo released a decade later in 2011. Commercial success was hampered due to the bankruptcy of Papillon (a division of Chrysalis Records) shortly after its release. On the poor charting, Oakey said in 2008: "That took us aback for a bit. We realized that we have to find different ways to get our music to people. And to be honest, listeners have grown older. They don't go out of their way to find music like they did when they were teens." As of March 2011, the album had total sales of 11,854 copies. Secrets was released in the United States on Ark21 Records November 2001. The first single "All I Ever Wanted" returned the Human League to the UK Singles Chart after a five-year absence peaking at number forty-seven. In 2003, after the collapse of Papillon Records, a follow-up single from Secrets, "Love Me Madly?," was released