I mostly know these guys as My Girl sweetiepie crooners, but the front side of this totally blew away my expectations: its packed to the brim with Sly-style dark, swirly funk. The title track in particular pulses like hot coals, and their version of I Heard it through the Grapefine is sharp and on point, punching with every beat, swaying with every pain and judoing it back into thinly veiled spite, all delivered poison needle smooth.
The back side is more typical sweetness, which is well performed, full of graceful harmonies, but nothing nearly so earth moving. Based on that first side alone (with a fractional demerit for the earcrushing, groovestopping crying noise on Runaway Child) 4/5
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