Musicians:
Seal: vocals (all), programming (4, 7, 10)
Joel Peters: drums (1, 4, 5, 7), programming (4, 5, 9), percussion (7, 10)
Earl Harvin: drums (1, 2, 4), cymbals (4)
Ash Soan: drums (4, 5, 7, 9)
Abe Rounds: drums (8)
Aaron Horn: programming (1, 4, 7)
Stephan Moccio: piano (1), keys (1), programming (1)
Julian Hinton: keys (1), programming (6, 9)
Jamie Odell: keys (3, 8), programming (3, 4, 7, 8)
Cameron Gower Poole: programming (4, 5, 9, 10), percussion (7)
Dave McCracken: programming (4)
Justin Parker: keys (5), programming (5)
Anne Dudley: piano (5)
Tim Weidner: programming (5), sound FX (6)
Trevor Horn: bass (2, 3, 5, 7-9), keys (all), guitar (1, 4, 5), backing vocals (9)
Chris Bruce: bass (1, 2, 4, 6-8, 11), guitars (1, 4, 5, 7)
Jamie Muhoberac: bass (9, 10), piano (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11), organ (2, 4, 9), keys (1, 2, 4, 5, 7-11), programming (1, 3-5, 7, 9-11)
Paul Turner: bass (4)
Simon Bloor: guitars (1-9), piano (4, 6, 10), keys (2, 7-10), programming (2, 3, 6, 10, 11)
Phil Palmer: guitars (2, 4-6, 8, 9)
Lol Crème: guitar (4, 7-9), percussion (9), backing vocals (9)
Josh Campbell: guitar (7)
Luis Jardim: percussion (1, 2, 5-7, 9, 10)
Paul Spong: trumpet (3, 8)
Steve Sidwell: trumpet (3, 8)
Andy Wood: trombone (3, 8)
Dave Bishop: sax (3, 8)
Minnetonka: backing vocals (4)
Mr Probz: backing vocals (4)

Produced by Horn/Seal
Additional production: Odell (3)
Mixed by Tim Weidner (1-3, 5, 6, 8-11), Joel Peters (4, 7)
Mix assistant: Alex Williams (1-3, 5, 6, 8-11), Josh Tyrell (4, 7, 8)
Mastered by Nick Watson; mastering assistant: Oli Morgan
Recording engineer: Peters (1-10), Gower Poole (1-10), Weidner (8, 11), Bloor (11), Campbell (11)
Additional engineering: Bloor (all), Campbell (4)
Assistant engineer: Campbell (1-3, 5-10)
Recorded at Sarm Studios, London (1-3, 5-7, 9-11), Sarm West Coast, LA (all), The Village, LA (4, 8)

A&R: Jeff Fenster
Art direction & design: Gavin Taylor
Cover photo: David Drebin
Additional photos: Hélène-Marie Pembrun

Tracks:
1. Daylight Saving [Seal/Moccio/T Horn] (4:50)
2. Every Time I'm with You [Seal/Bloor/T Horn] (4:31)
3. Life on the Dancefloor [Seal/Odell] (5:14)
4. Padded Cell [Seal/Bloor/A Horn/T Horn/Louis Cole] (4:08)
5. Do You Ever [Seal/Justin Parker/T Horn] (4:36)
6. The Big Love has Died [Seal/Bloor/T Horn] (4:30)
7. Redzone Killer [Seal/Bloor/A Horn/T Horn] (4:22)
8. Monascow [Seal/Joel Compass/T Horn] (4:10)
9. Half a Heart [Seal/Echosmith/Jeffery David/Philip Bentley] (3:54)
10. Let Yourself [Seal] (4:26)
11. Love [Seal/David; arrangement: Muhoberac] (4:35)
12. We Found Love [Seal/David], Target bonus track only
13. Whatever You Need [Seal], Target bonus track only

orchestral arrangement/orchestra conducted by Dudley (1, 2, 4, 6), Nick Ingman (5, 7, 10), Hinton (9)
additional orchestration: Hinton (6), Bloor (9)
brass arrangement: Sidwell (3, 8)
orchestral contractor/fixer: Isobel Griffiths (1, 2, 4-7, 10)
strings recorded at Angel Studios by Mat Bartam (1, 2, 4-7, 10)
assistant engineer: Chris Parker (1, 2, 4-7, 10)
 

Notes (****): "Do You Ever" and "Every Time I'm with You" were released as singles on 11 Sep; there were also 2 promotional singles, "Life on the Dancefloor" (released 2 Oct) and "Padded Cell" (16 Oct).

The usual Seal crew here, including Earl Harvin, Chris Bruce, Jamie Muhoberac, Luis Jardim and Magnification producer Tim Weidner, plus the usual late Horn crew, including Bloor, Hinton and Crème, and longstanding Horn collaborators like Dudley and Palmer. Also appearing are Trevor Horn's son Aaron, Stephan Moccio (who co-wrote Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball") and Jamie Odell (performs under the name Jimpster; son of Roger Odell, drummer in Shakatak). What's different compared to previous Seal albums is how much Horn co-wrote, just over half the album, having never had a writing credit on a Seal album before.

Seal had not worked with Horn on original material since 2003's Seal IV, working on System (2007), Soul (2008, covers album) and Commitment (2010) without Horn, although Horn did produce the majority of 2011's Soul 2 covers album. Seal and Horn worked on the album for 2 years, and reportedly tried and abandoned a "huge number" of songs according to a joint interview with the pair in The Telegraph (4 Nov 2015). In another interview, Seal commented on (2) and the album in general, saying:

There’s a journey whenever you are making a record. You are trying to fit many good songs into a single good record. A good song and a good record are two different things. I had about 55 songs for this album. There were some good songs that didn’t necessarily make a really good album—they never made it.

A record involves production, the placement of the vocal arrangement, timing—how long in total or the duration of a single song.

Turning “Every Time I’m With You” from a song into a piece of this record took a lot of time, a lot of Trevor Horn’s genius. Trevor is my producer and has been for the last 25 years. It took a lot of knowhow and a lot of trial and error but I think we came up with a way of making the record that gave the public the best chance of getting the message and the narrative of each song.

Prior to the album's release, Seal performed a number of times with the Trevor Horn Band (i.e., Producers under a new name).

In the Telegraph interview, both also said, "We've both had losses," referring to the death of Horn's wife and Seal's divorce from Heidi Klum in 2012. Lyrically, the album focuses on love and loss. Seal said: "What I tried to do was capture all the dynamics, the extreme highs, the lows, the anger, the recklessness, the remorse, the forgiveness and end with hope, because despite of all that, my faith in love is stronger now than it ever was." "Daylight Saving" was the first song Seal brought to Horn, Horn describing it as "one of the saddest songs I'd ever heard[.] I've been through a lot over the past eight years, and I could relate to the feeling of being on your own." In another interview, Seal said the album was about 40% autobiographical.

(10) came out of Seal's experiences mentoring on the BBC's The Voice show. (8) is the name Seal and friends use for Monaco, and the song is about his experience of being in Monaco or Sardinia (HP, 20 Nov 15)