It seems as though one of the reasons that this album exists is because Barrett's ex-Floyd bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmore came in to help him and motivate him to release it. I seem to remember reading that Eric Clapton might even have been involved somewhere behind the scenes too.
There are occasional moments of brilliance on this album: 'Octopus' 'If it's in you' and the almost 90s grungey sound of 'Long Gone'. Despite these highlights, it's a patchy album, certainly uneven enough that it doesn't stand up to his work with Floyd. I don't know either whether this album would really be quite worthy of the 'mad genius' label he constantly gets plastered with.
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