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CBS released it in the UK and Columbia in the US as a double LP, with one piece on each side. The band produced it, with Andy Knight and Bob Woolford as engineers. Leroy writes that the group financed it themselves and made edits and loops partly at Woolford's home on his tape recorders, while CBS had already bought the finished album.

It reached number 18 on the UK chart and number 5 in the Netherlands. AllMusic gave it five stars, and Q and Mojo both ranked it number 20 in their 2005 list of 40 cosmic rock albums.

Four-piece studio recordings fill the other three sides, with a few guests. Jimmy Hastings, the brother of Caravan's Pye Hastings, adds flute and clarinet to Slightly All the Time, the violinist Rab Spall is on the coda of Moon in June, and Nick Evans plays trombone briefly on Slightly All the Time and Out-Bloody-Rageous. The original release has tape hiss on the live recordings and abrupt edits. Overall the music marks a shift from the band's psychedelic origins toward jazz rock and electronic music.

In 2007 Sony BMG reissued it on CD with a second disc, Live at the Proms 1970, which Reckless Records had first released in 1988. The disc was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 August 1970 and holds Out-Bloody-Rageous, Facelift and Esther's Nose Job played as one continuous suite. Rolling Stone called the album's tape collages unvarnished, and the BBC's Sid Smith wrote in 2007 of its legendary status.