's final album was recorded during a period of major personal shakeups, principally in the decision by and to follow the same route to divorce that had already been taken by . Both male members of the group would soon remarry, but at the time, despite all of these changes in their circumstances, was never intended as 's swan song -- they were to go on recording together. That may explain why, rather than a threadbare, thrown-together feel, is a beautifully made, very sophisticated album, filled with serious but never downbeat songs, all beautifully sung and showing off some of the bold songwriting efforts. The title track is a topical song about Soviet dissidents that also manages to be very catchy, while sounds like a Broadway number (and a very good one, at that) in search of a to be part of, and is a serious, achingly beautiful with a lot to say about their personal situations -- even a lighthearted song sung by about answering a personal advertisement, offered several catchy hooks and beautiful backup singing. ended the original album on a hauntingly ethereal note, but not as any kind of larger statement about the quartet's fate. The intention was to keep working together, but ' growing involvement with their stage project, , prevented any further work together by the group beyond three songs, -- they're all present as bonus tracks on the 2001 remastered edition (in gatefold packaging), along with the orphaned B-side from the same sessions as , and only add to the appeal of the original album. ~ Bruce Eder