The title of the album, Time Machine refers to the fact that though the music is recent (2010 to 2011) the answer-phone messages date from 1987 to 1989. In his introductory note, Doyle admits to saving hundreds of telephone answering machine messages, hours and hours of them dating from a period from 1987 to 1989 when he lived in a top floor flat in Merrion Square, Dublin. Taken as a whole they give a picture of bohemian life in Dublin in the 1980's and are probably an important social document. Doyle has chosen a few which would stand on their own without detailed reference to Doyle's life, and around these has written music. The two intertwine so that Doyle feels that the messages will not stand on their own, and neither will the music.