It was the first studio album produced after Grace Slick rejoined the band as a full member.

Aynsley Dunbar plays drums on the album, but was replaced by Donny Baldwin for the supporting tour.

[1] Joseph McCombs of AllMusic called the album "one of the weakest entries" in the band's discography and "strikingly unadventurous".

[2] Writing for Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden said that the songs sounded like bland, recycled versions of Jefferson Starship's other songs but that "there's still enough of a glimmer from the spark of Red Octopus to keep this ship rattling along".

[3] The LP produced two U.S. Top 40 singles: "Be My Lady" in the fall of 1982 (#28), and "Winds of Change" in the winter of 1983 (#38).