A collection of leftovers and out-takes recorded from 1981–1985, Hitchcock's sleeve notes explain that the album was assembled because the songs "didn't fit in with what I was doing at the time and do fit in with each other now".
Hitchcock assembled a gathering of discarded and supplementary tracks between 1981 and 1985. According to his sleeve notes, these songs were brought together since they didn't fit into his current creative direction but now complement one another.