At the time Frith had a passion for tape manipulation and "sound malfunctions". In a 1982 interview with "DownBeat" magazine Frith said that so much more can be done with tape: "I'm interested in using the studio for things that you couldn't possibly do in a performance, to use the medium of tape in a way that is intrinsic to it." He added that hardware malfunctions often result in more interesting sounds than was originally intended: " lot of the sounds that I get in the studio have been specifically the result of overloading or causing to malfunction various pieces of technology, like harmonizers or digital delays."