For "What Men Deserve to Loose", the band took inspiration "from their surroundings in Skye, people they had met and places they visited over the couple of years" prior to making the album. The band said they were trying to bring a "fresh edge to the established Peatbog sound". Stafford brings what the band described as a "contemporary dancey feel" to the album, whilst the "great addition" of the band's brass section, The Wayward Boys, return from "Croftwork" and were announced as being a "now established" part of the band's sound. The whistles that Morrison plays on the album are Overton whitles by Colin Goldie, Sinclair/Strathmore highliand pipes, Garvie border pipes by Nigel Richard and small pipes by Hamish Moore, whilst Innes plays Fylde guitars, G&L and Musicman basses.