The opening track, "It Takes a Woman's Love (To Make a Man)", was remixed for release as a single, including additional guest vocals and segments far different from the album version, but was not popular.

"[4] "It Takes a Woman's Love" was written specifically to appease record label owner Don Kirshner's demands for the band to produce a song with the potential to be a hit single.

[4] Relations between the band members were strong, and they commented in later years that the struggle to make Kansas a success forged a tight bond between them.

[5] In a retrospective review, Bret Adams of Allmusic said that Masque "foreshadows the tight melodies and instrumental interplay on the next two albums, Leftoverture and Point of Know Return, which together serve as the peak of Kansas's vision."

He remarked that Robby Steinhardt's violin work stood as distinctive from other progressive rock violinists, and praised the bleak lyrics and combination of satisfying rock with dense progressive arrangements on individual songs such as "Two Cents Worth", "Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel", and "Mysteries and Mayhem".