Allmusic's review was largely negative, saying that the album lacks the innovation and originality of the band's other releases, replaced by "a crop of relatively straightforward but sonically flat rock songs". It further added that only "Piece of Mind" shows any of the classical

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 influences the band was known for, and that that particular song is by modern standards "hopelessly old-fashioned", "obvious", and "hackneyed".

Side One

1. "Young Mother" (Darryl Way, Sonja Kristina Linwood) – 5:55
2. "Back Street Luv
   Back Street Luv
   "Back Street Luv" is a song by British rock band Curved Air, written by band members Ian Eyre, Sonja Kristina and Darryl Way. It was included into the Second Album and released as a single in July 1971 by Warner Bros. Records . On September 18 "Back Street Luv" reached number 4 in the UK Singles...
   
   " (Way, Linwood, Ian Eyre) – 3:38
3. "Jumbo" (Way, Linwood) – 4:11
4. "You Know" (Way, Linwood) – 4:11
5. "Puppets" (Way, Linwood) – 5:26

Side Two

1. "Everdance" (Francis Monkman) – 3:08
2. "Bright Summer's Day '68" (Monkman) – 2:54
3. "Piece of Mind" (Monkman, T. S. Eliot
   T. S. Eliot
   Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
   
   ) – 12:52

Personnel

• Ian Eyre – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Sonja Kristina
  Sonja Kristina Linwood
  Sonja Kristina , is an English musician most recognizable as the vocalist for Curved Air.- Biography :...
  
   – lead vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Francis Monkman
  Francis Monkman
  Francis Monkman is an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of the progressive rock band Curved Air.-Career:...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , VCS3 synthesizer
  EMS VCS 3
  The VCS 3 is a portable analog synthesiser with a flexible semi-modular voice architecture, by Electronic Music Studios Limited in 1969....
  
  
• Florian Pilkington-Miksa
  Florian Pilkington-Miksa
  Florian Pilkington-Miksa was the drummer in the original line-up of the British rock group Curved Air. He subsequently joined Kiki Dee's band. In 2008 he became a founding member of the most recent incarnation of Curved Air.-References:...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Darryl Way
  Darryl Way
  Darryl Way is a British rock and classical musician who was a founding member of Curved Air and co-writer of their only hit single, "Back Street Luv". He is best known as a violinist although he also played keyboards.He began his musical training at Dartington College of Arts, and later studied at...
  
   – violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  , piano
  Piano
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   on "Puppets", backing vocals

Other covers

Salad

Salad (band)

Salad were a UK-based pop music group formed in London in 1992, that included Dutch vocalist/keyboardist Marijne van der Vlugt, bassist Pete Brown, drummer Rob Wakeman , and guitarist Paul Kennedy...

 covered "Back Street Luv

Back Street Luv

"Back Street Luv" is a song by British rock band Curved Air, written by band members Ian Eyre, Sonja Kristina and Darryl Way. It was included into the Second Album and released as a single in July 1971 by Warner Bros. Records . On September 18 "Back Street Luv" reached number 4 in the UK Singles...

" on the 1996 Childline

ChildLine

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charity album.