Was this the start of them becoming more of a pop act? They had some elements of that earlier. Duke is such a great album and hard to top. I preferred the progier stuff. They were such a great set of musicians who could make complicated music fun.
That said, I need to listen to this album again to see how I feel about it.
I thought you would have known. I waited for this with such anticipation that it left an imprint in my memory. The 4 tracks I list are what is salvageable from this mess.
It would be years before I looked at any of their other future albums, though they always seemed to pull something good out single wise, such as 'Mama' which I could not fail to notice.