I've known this record since it first came out around 1965. Heard "Esoteric" on the radio and went out and bought the album. I'm sitting here trying to figure out which of the McLean-Moncur albums I like best, and can't. This one is a little starker, or bleaker, than the other two (not counting "Hipnosis" which came out more than a decade later) but I love it.