Echo & the Bunnymen is the fifth studio album by the English post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen, and the last with their drummer Pete de Freitas, who died in 1989 at age 27 in a motorcycle accident. The album was produced by Laurie Latham who recorded the album in Germany, Belgium, London and Liverpool after an aborted attempt at recording the album without de Freitas and with producer Gil Norton. With Latham being an exacting producer and singer Ian McCulloch receiving star treatment and drinking heavily, the recording of the album was more difficult than the band had initially hoped. The album made more use of keyboards than their previous albums, which had been string-heavy.