All tracks are edits of live performances recorded in Liverpool, Manchester, Osaka, Tokyo and Vienna except Lambing, which was recorded at home in part for a film by Lucy Baldwyn.
Stoke was made using Bush, Fidelity and Philips record players, Casio keyboard and Alba portable CD player.
'...to suggest you need to wait as long as we do, or that one night the combination of a half remembered noise and the nostalgia of a room would appeal to both young and old, the happy, unhappy, rich and poor, expressing simply the thoughts that at one time slip into every home. And now able to say we have not yet left the building.'
- Philip Jeck
'...a glimpse of the future through prisms of past records...abounding in pleasures and surprises...'
- The Wire'