2002 edition have very minor editing. There are a few slightly different segues in the song "Birdman" and the sections of this song are marked as separate tracks on the CD. Reception Fred Dellard gave the record a perfect score of "50 : A" in Hi-Fi News & Record Review, indicating a "top class recording" "of special merit". He wrote that Giles and McDonald "take the best of King Crimson and turn it into a highly personal series of sketches that stun with their pure majesty. If Debussy had been working within the confines of modern pop music perhaps he would have produced something like this." A reviewer in Cash Box called the two sides of the record "gentle complex music that moves from one important statement to another with free-wheeling grace", comparing it to the albums of Mountain, Elton John and Emerson, Lake & Palmer in that Giles and McDonald "create their own musical world that is the mark of rock in its highest and purest form". Record World was less enthusiastic, writing that the duo "specialize in a kind of pretty-rock that, at its best, is reminiscent of Beatles–Bee Gees ballads, and, at its worst, is reminiscent of Muzak". A review in The Guardian Journal opined that "one can't help wishing [Giles and McDonald] would employ a little more discipline and a little less self-indulgence in their work" despite the duo's "undeniable musical accomplishments". In particular the reviewer thought that, with "Birdman", "moods are created and then snatched away just as they begin to develop, and the effect is often patchy". The reviewer singled out "Turnham Green" and "Flight of the Ibis" as the album's best tracks. Writing retrospectively in AllMusic, Steven McDonald wrote that the main draw of the record "is really the performances turned in by McDonald and the Giles brothers—they all sound fabulous, even when waffling musically, while Michael Giles has a unique drum tone that never has been duplicated". Track listing From the liner notes: "Suite in C" was written by Ian McDonald in Detroit, Los Angeles and Earls Court between December 1969 and February 1970. "Is She Waiting?" was written in Earls Court in the summer of 1969, between King Crimson gigs. "Birdman" was mostly written in the spring of 1968, apart from the Flying bit which was done in 1970. Original idea by Peter Sinfield. "Wishbone Ascension" was performed live by King