While not a enormous professional achievements, noted audio critic Timothy Duggan shown it as "Townshend's most sincere and introspective work since Quadrophenia." Through the rest of the eighties and early 1990s Townshend would again experiment with the rock opera and relevant formats, releasing numerous story-based albums together with White City: A Novel (1985), The Iron Man: A Musical (1989), and Psychoderelict (1993).