Around this time Alan began to think about a title for the album.



"l've said before that completing an album is a conceptual puzzle, trying to make sense of what others bring. Some rationale normally evolves by choosing the right people and leaving them to their own lyrical devices.  I don't like to impose boundaries although, once their souls have been captured on hard disc, I reserve the right to re-structure their performances.  That way I can entwine their words within the Recoil landscape and hopefully create the overall continuity. Towards the end of a project, some sort of concept naturally arises, albeit a loose one, which gives us a way forward for a title and to produce the artwork.

In this case, the lyrics from Joe seemed to deal with the fallout from religious doctrine and also incarceration, both physical and mental.  Together with Carla's 'prayer' and her words to 'Intruders', it set me thinking about how we seem to have learnt nothing from past experiences and our so called 'civilised' world  is still awash with personal and global atrocities.  From suicide bombers in the Middle East, to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; from the homophobic rhetoric of the Christian fundamentalist preacher, to the activities of Western governments engaged in their 'war on terror'. We are all 'subhuman' in somebody's eyes"

Artwork was commissioned to Jesse Holhorn whose grasp of Alan's simple brief for 'subHuman' resulted in truly arresting images. Jesse pitched his ideas as: "a modern visualisation emphasising the disregarded lifeform that is known as 'subHuman'.  Represented by mannequins, they emerge as faceless, autonomons with no opinions - moral degenerates to the powers that be, created by world tragedy.  The photography captures the mannequins in real life situations, going about everyday life as recyclable worthless beings."
 

Texan Reflection  by Paul Kendall