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The group's music was soon labeled as baroque pop, due to the often very classically inspired arrangements that Michael Lloyd's father, the classically trained Harry Lookofsky, was responsible for. Michael Lloyd was the group's keyboardist and main songwriter and he had a very special ability to write songs that could be complicated and catchy at the same time. The two big single hits that gave the album its name are very fine examples of just this. "Walk Away Reneé" which Brown wrote together with the relatively unknown Bob Calilli and Tony Sansone later also became a big hit for The Four Tops.

The third single from the album was "She May Call You Up Tonight", which is a nice upbeat track that for inexplicable reasons only became a minor hit. The number was to a lesser extent baroque-pop and more reminiscent of the Beatles or the Byrds. The track was written by Brown with lead singer Steve Martin Caro.

Also the B-sides "Barterers and Their Wives" and especially "I've Got Something on My Mind" sound like surefire hits and help to emphasize the unusually high level of songwriting. There are no weak tracks on the album, which is overall characterized by inventiveness and variety. "Let Go of You Girl" and "I Haven't Got the Nerve" are upbeat songs with fine Beatles-inspired vocal harmonies. Real baroque pop is the very beautiful "Shadows Breaking Over My Head". "What Do you Know" is fun song - country rock from before that genre had actually arisen.

At the more raw end, you find "Evening Gown" and "Lazy Day", which show that The Left Banke could rock. On the latter, the vocals almost sound like Phil May from The Pretty Things had passed. Besides being arranger of the songs Harry Lookofsky also produced the album. An album that should be found in every serious record collection.