Martin Newell, who formed the legendary lo-fi band Cleaners From Venus, in the small town of Wivenhoe, England began work on 'In the Golden Autumn' in the warm early spring of 1983. One of Newell’s chief problems at this time, apart from constant money shortages, was finding musical collaborators who shared his own skewed pop vision.The absolute opposite of a musical perfectionist, the founding Cleaner believed that great pop was to be had by doing things quickly in a slapdash fashion and by "fumbling around in the dark in search of happy accidents."