The group's musical accompaniment was directed by Reg Guest and produced by John Franz.

Receiving good to mixed reviews, the album was first released in both Mono and Stereo LP formats in March 1967.

[citation needed] Richie Unterberger, writing retrospectively for AllMusic, called the album "as wildly uneven as their other pair.

Affecting pop/rock ballads and operatic crooner vehicles were interspersed with absolutely inappropriate up-tempo blue-eyed soul (always a weak point for the group) and rock covers".

[4] Unterberger rates Scott Walker's songs highly, noting that they "[exhibit] a growth that foreshadowed some of the more ambitious aspects of his early solo albums".