More funk, but from a much more pop-influenced standpoint than its predecesors. This is funk made into concert-ready party music, every chant and horn riff is there to make you smile. Not that there's anything wrong with that - it just lacks some of the personality and edge that Parliament/Funkadelic and Sly had. Sly and the Family Stone sing "Into My Own Thing" and you believe them, this is just the music that pours out of them. Earth, Wind and Fire sounds like it has been designed to move you. If Funkadelic was The Grateful Dead, this is Dave Mathews Band. It's good listening, full of great horn runs and sharp (oft-sampled) beats, but lacking a certain energy that makes me love the really good stuff 3.5/5
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