Martina Topley Bird's third solo album came about after Damon Albarn encouraged her to record simplified new versions of songs from her first two records, Quixotic, and the Danger Mouse-produced The Blue God. While the originals were hardly drowning in excessive production, Topley Bird has pared them back further still, removing nearly all the flesh from their bones and leaving just the melody lines, her airy voice and jolts of electric piano, drum machine and tambourine.

Schizophonic is the fifth album by music producer Geoff Wilkinson's jazz/rap fusion project Us3. It features a more upbeat approach than most of the tracks from previous albums by Us3, and - like on the previous 2004 album Questions - no samples but live recordings were used in its production.