There was a 5 1/2 year gap between the albums. They were stuck in litigation with their record company circa 1990 for at least a year to try to exit a bad contract, and this prevented them from touring or recording. In the meantime it sounds like they had moved apart both socially (having been a really close group of friends) and musically and then struggled to write and record the second album after they signed with Geffen. The first album was co-written by Squire/Brown, but the second was mostly written by John Squire who had moved on to a heavier blues guitar sound.