The personal dynamics associated with the period in which "A Kiss in the Dreamhouse" was recorded were often less than healthy. The band's recently fired manager and Siouxsie's former partner, Nils Stevenson, had become obsessive in response to her developing relationship with Budgie. The band spent long hours in the studio, fuelled by drink and drugs. According to "Uncut" writer Garry Mulholland, the "stunningly beautiful music" of "Dreamhouse" was "a product of addiction, stress, old, sick love and new, dangerous love, money woes and a darkness that would eventually claim three lives".