Playmates is the fourth studio album, and the first during their reunion, by English rock band the Small Faces.

Unbeknownst to the others, he was just beginning to show the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, and his behaviour was misinterpreted by Marriott and the others as a drunken tantrum.

Lane subsequently began recording Rough Mix with the Who's Pete Townshend shortly after the argument.

Nevertheless, McLagan, Jones and Marriott decided to stay together as Small Faces, recruiting ex-Peter Frampton and Roxy Music bassist Rick Wills to take Lane's place.

[1] The New York Times called the album "decently entertaining blues-rock," and noted that "the playing is a lot tighter than the more sloppily rambunctious days of the Faces.