This album is amazing. It’s dark, it’s powerful, it’s fucking brilliant. I originally picked it up cause I had heard ‘Family Affair’ and was blown away by it, and after listening to the whole album I was amazed. Sly and the Family Stone were one of the greatest bands of the original Funk generation, and the fact that they are almost unknown today is just ridiculous.

This album, along with their other works, helped to create and recreate Funk. Sly, with George Clinton and James Brown, is one of the pioneers of modern Funk and this album shows a darker side of it then you have often heard before or after. The whole album is muddy, mixed, crazy, intense, and utterly genius. Sly sounds tortured, which he basically was, this album was made right before he fell into his Coke addiction, and he never really came back. He was also just fucking angry, angry with the death of the Civil Rights Movement, angry with the racism of America, angry with everything really. The optimism of their early albums is almost nowhere to be found. Out of all his anger, and addiction, he made a statement that stands today as one of the most impressive, and intense albums ever made. You have to hear this, it’s that simple.