 The concept of the album was described at the time as "the story of man's last defence against an irate nature".The album began as a demonstration record for the 'Gizmotron', or Gizmo.This was an electric guitar effect device that Godley and Creme had invented a few years earlier as a means of providing orchestral textures, because the band at that stage could not afford to hire orchestral players to augment their recordings.