Jenny Toomey (Tsunami, Grenadine) and Dan Littleton (Hated, Ida) had played together on / off for seven years before Ivo Watts-Russell (the top of 4AD Information) approached Toomey on the subject of doing a aspect project. She decided and journeyed to Livonia, MI, with Littleton to record on the cellar studio room of Warren Defever, guitarist and manufacturer for His Name Is normally Alive. HNIA drummer Trey Many became the 3rd person in Liquorice through the recording periods. 4AD released Hearing Cap in middle-1995.