Anderson and Frischmann broke up

By spring 1991, Anderson and Frischmann had broken up. Frischmann began dating Blur frontman Damon Albarn . She believed the band could adapt to the new situation. However, tensions grew. Butler recalled, “She’d turn up late for rehearsals and say the worst thing in the world – ‘I’ve been on a Blur video shoot.’ That was when it ended, really. I think it was the day after she said that Brett phoned me up and said, ‘I’ve kicked her out.’” After Frischmann’s departure, the character of the group shifted. “If Justine hadn’t left the band,” Anderson remarked, “I don’t think we’d have got anywhere. It was a combination of being personally motivated and the chemistry being right once she’d left.” Anderson and Butler became close friends and started writing several new songs together. Still, the band’s music remained out of step with the prevailing sounds of London’s music scene and the American grunge movement. Anderson noted, “For the whole of 1991, A&R men wouldn’t give us a second look.”