The album is a reworking of tapes recorded by the band in Copenhagen in July 1967.

Tracks from those recordings were first released on the Pickwick budget label in 1973 under the name All Our Own Work.

The track listing on this album is slightly different and some of the songs have the original string arrangements that also were recorded in 1967.

This is a discrepancy as both albums derive from the same source recordings.

Joe Boyd writes he and Denny listened to a white label pressing of the album shortly before the release of Sgt.