1969 began with The Masters Apprentices settling their new line-up and the Ford/Keays writing team hitting its stride, the band now moved to its best-remembered and most successful phase.

During this period, Ford/Keays struggled to write new material due to the band's hectic live performance schedule.

The album also includes their own version of "St John's Wood", a track Ford and Keays wrote[4] for Brisbane band The Sect, who had released it as a single on Columbia during the year.

Allmusic's Richie Unterberger said "It's a respectable but oddly schizophrenic effort, finding them searching for an identity with competent forays into hard rock, early progressive rock, and poppy folk-rock, with orchestral instrumental links between many of the tracks adding to the confusion (as there's no concept driving the LP)."

"Part of the problem lays in the fact that the band are concerned with making the obligatory profound musical statement (the first side had all the tracks segued into one another in the manner of the Beatles' Sgt.