McNeir's wonderfully restrained tenor wails for pop vibe while the strings have cold urban metallic feel to them, coursing in a very echoed manor along with some very hollow organ lines and reverbed piano beds; it all adds to the haunted nature of the album on tracks like the distant sounding The Tears in my Heart. The Motown tambourine shuffle of Gone Away with it's soul guitar of thin guitar lines and funky, reverb guitar chords full of Latin blues licks. Trouble's a Loser mixes many 70s elements from the sweet wah wah to the very precise electric organ playing and the use of a Melodica here and in other places on the album with it's harmonica by way of a keyboard sound adds a sunny country morning vibe to proceedings. Young Girl is the most pop and constructed song o the very 'airey' slow jam based album, the structure is more clear than the arrangements of the other tunes. The call and response chat on In the Summertime is very dated but sounds great with the smoky voice artists' luscious accents.Keep Your Hands Off My Lady starts with frenetic percussion intrlocking with intricate melodica lines, while the closer Girl you Gonna Lose your Groove features large wah wah strains and excellent melodica fills, playing blues improvisations.
You Better Make Sure creates an incredible sound with a flute and the multiple vocal tracks sounding like they were recorded in a deep well while the hazy trumpets are multi tracked and mixes in the background in this very spacey chamber reverbed mix to create a almost space age synth sound.
McNeir looks off in a look of being either at peace, or in love, in the velvety 70s cover with his big afro front and centre and a rainbow logo for his name.
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