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Tolhurst and Budgie first met when their respective bands toured together in 1979. The two had previously collaborated on the post-punk-centric podcast Curious Creatures starting in 2021.
The project began life as a trio with Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins, with Tolhurst half-jokingly describing the project at that stage as "like the Three Tenors, but with drummers". Work on the album beginning at Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee's home studio along with a singer. Thinking the project sounded too much like their typical output, and not liking the mixing work at the time, they scrapped what they had. It was at that point that Haskins left the project, having to go on tour with Bauhaus, and Tolhurst described the duo as "not desolate, but a little despairing." Tolhurst confided in his neighbor Jacknife Lee, playing the demos for him during a chance meeting at the 2019 Topanga Canyon Blues Festival, where Lee suggested they start over at his home studio in Topanga, California. The group experimented with their usual drums, guitars, and synths, as well as found sounds and an AI voice machine. U2 guitarist the Edge joined during these sessions, playing stuff akin to his work with Jah Wobble and Can's Holger Czukay.
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