The album was initially released by Island Records UK in late 1972 (catalog no. ILPS 9215) following Mott's move to CBS/Columbia Records earlier that year, and the band's success with their first CBS/Columbia album All the Young Dudes.
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He left Mott after their breakthrough 1972 album, All The Young Dudes, because Hunter was reluctant to record most of the songs he had written ("Second Love" on Brain Capers and "Soft Ground" on Dudes are the only songs in the Mott the Hoople canon written entirely by Allen).