samedi 13 février 2010

The Chi-Lites - (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People (Brunswick Records - 1971)



The Chi-Lites - (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People

May I pay your attention please. This album is a masterpiece. The best album of a band that has never been this well inspired and will never be that well inspired again. It just contains one of the best uplifting soul song ever written, a beautiful masterpiece that stand well along What's Going On and A Change Is Gonna Come, Have You Seen Her. A vocal chicagoan quatuor, The Chi-Lites were already well known for their lush love songs. But with this album, with a blazing and massive production clearly inspired by Curtis Mayfield or the psychedelic sound Norman Whitfield created for The Temptations, they inject black power consciousness in their otherwise unoffensive love songs. Their vocal combines perfectly and for once the strings never sound cheesy. All this render the kind of album that you want to listen very loud to make you happy and hope better tomorrows.

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