After the career peak of To Bring You My Love and the wonderful experimentation of Dance Hall at Louse Point Harvey struck out for bright lights and fawning journos and proved that she could write cool, slick rock music with the career enhancing Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea which earned her a whole new legion of fans and sent them scurrying to her back catalogue in search of treasures unheard. 

Next thing she does is make an album of gothic murk and back porch grunge which shows she still bears the scars from her involvement with Nick Cave but has managed to overcome her demons. The resulting album is shaky and unstable and seemed to offend many of her newer fans who didn't understand why she would want to write a song that sounded like Free Kitten.