 At the time Steven Wilson was going to sign to the Delerium label, he owned a lot of material recorded during the mid- and later '80s that he had recorded subsequently on three demo tapes - "Tarquin's Seaweed Farm", "Love, Death & Mussolini" and "The Nostalgia Factory".He sent copies of those tapes to people he felt would be interested in the recordings, asking them to spread the word.Delerium originally intended to release all of that material in a double debut album, but Wilson decided to just pick the songs he considered the best ones.