iain bell said about writing the music, “it was a joy to be able to wink to various elements of 1960s music-making throughout, so riffs are explored and harmonic progressions are occasionally more reminiscent of those of popular music of the time”. he wrote two jukebox songs, recorded with iconic girl group legend darlene love, with lyrics by campbell opening part ii. “a jukebox features "today's the day," about a wedding, and "better days ahead," a sad song in the style of shirley bassey.”