Editing Crown of Creation (section)

=== Reception ===

AllMusic's Bruce Eder states that the album is "deliberately more accessible musically than its predecessor, even as the playing became more bold and daring within more traditional song structures", praising "If You Feel" as one of Balin's most heartfelt vocal performances and "Pooneil Corners" as the group firing on all cylinders. 

The ''Daily Vault'' described the album as "almost the perfect release for 1968 and a wonderful snapshot of the era", singling out the bass work of Jack Casady as some of the best of the group's career and the decade. 

It was voted number 591 in Colin Larkin's ''All Time Top 1000 Albums'' (3rd edition, 2000).  When the band toured Europe and America to promote the album that autumn, many of the album's songs were included in the set list — including "Lather", "In Time", "Triad", and "If You Feel" — but were dropped within weeks, never to be performed live again.