Initial sessions for the new album began in January 1971 at London's Abbey Road Studios, under the direction of Geoff Emerick, who had produced the bulk of No Dice.Spizer, p. 338. The band also worked at Command Studios in central London and at AIR Studios, the facility owned by former Beatles producer George Martin. Twelve tracks from these Emerick-produced sessions were completed by March, with the band rushing to finish the untitled album before reluctantly leaving for a two-month US tour that Polley had booked.
