Commenting on the split from EMI, Jay's by then-former manager Watson stated that "I think that it's a real shame how things have turned out... we were onto a winner but somehow the project lost its way. I hope that Matthew gets a new deal, makes the music that we all know he is capable of and finds true happiness". Jay's album and single releases were the last to be issued via Food, before the label was wound down and subsumed into Parlophone after EMI took full control.