John Stuart Mill | House of Stuart | Stuart | Staples Center | Mary Stuart | J.E.B. Stuart | James Francis Edward Stuart | Staples Inc. | Stuart Raper | Stuart Highway | Charles Edward Stuart | Stuart Pearce | Leslie Stuart | Gilbert Stuart | Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel | Stuart Manning | Mary Stuart (play) | Mavis Staples | Mary Stuart Masterson | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | Stuart Whitman | Stuart McLean | Stuart Holland | Stuart Christie | Ricky Stuart | Marty Stuart | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley | Stuart period | Stuart Kauffman | Stuart Blumberg |
Released in 2005 through Ici, d'ailleurs... record label, it features a number of high-profile guest vocalists, both French and Anglophone alike: Christophe Miossec, Dominique A, Elizabeth Fraser (of the Cocteau Twins), Jane Birkin, and Stuart Staples (of the Tindersticks).
In a video interview with the Dutch online music magazine FaceCulture, singer Stuart Staples said the album's title was inspired by a story related by guitarist David Kitt, when Kitt had been sent to a songwriting workshop in the United States, and a fellow attendee was having trouble finding a suitable adjective to describe the song he was writing.