The album was recorded in London over the winter of 1995 and 1996 and production was helmed by Stephen Street. Much of the content of the album is autobiographical. "Lie Detector" was written about Wener's frustration with "how women are stereotyped and put into boxes, and not allowed to escape the way they were originally viewed
The album was well received by critics and helped solidify Sleeper's status as a key band in the Britpop movement. Although it lacks a standout track on the level of Smart's "Inbetweener," Sleeper's second album, The It Girl, was a stronger effort, suggesting that lead singer/songwriter Louise Wener could develop into a distinctive talent.
Certainly, her melodies and hooks are uniformly better this time around, ranging from the bouncy "Sale of the Century" to the sighing melancholy of "What Do I Do Now?" Wener's lyrics continue to be underdeveloped and simplisitic, but her hooks usually make that tendency easy to ignore. The It Girl was an even stronger album is a clearer, more focused production. Although the sound of the album changed subtlely throughout the course of the record, the overall effect is numbingly similar. The rhythm section lacks drive and the guitars lack balls -- they blend together into one dull grind. Out of all of Stephen Street's productions.
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