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As long as I've known about Tower Of Power this is one of their albums that continues to get a very bad rap and all for the same reason. It's long been considered to be their disco album. But as a couple other reviewers pointed out there's actually very little on this album that would be condusive to disco dancing at all. However it should be noted that this album represents a significant change in style from earlier TOP releases. Whereas their previous album We Came to Play only lightly slickened up the sound in favor of retaining a good deal of their original funk flavors this is generally a more full on sophistifunk album. The production is the glossiest of their entire career with vocal harmonies and the reverbed keyboard textures of Chester Thompson laid on thickly. All the same it would be unfair to use this album as yet another way to knock a very unfairly maligned musical subgenre,especially since this doesn't even really represent it I will just concentrate on the music. Very much unlike the previous album this album is very much dominated by uptempo material and in this case it's actually very stylistically diverse. Songs such as "Rock Baby","It Takes To (To Make It Happen) and the motivational closing track "Just Make a Move (And Be Yourself)" actually come out as very potent and heavy late 70's dance-funk-with their strong melodic horns,vocals and sweeping rhythms they actually catch TOP on the same general musical tip to where Con Funk Shun,Heatwave and EWF were going at the time with their music only,in some cases of course with a bit more of a grind to them. It also features two slower variations on the same musical ideas on the clavinet charged smooth grover "Our Love","Something Calls Me" and the very jazzy,very EWF styled "In Due Time"-a song whose scaling vocal harmony intro makes it one of my favorite on the album. There's also the more classic R&B shuffle of "And You Know It" as well as a version of the Motown classic "Nowhere To Run" the only track on the album with any nod whatever to the disco-funk sound and it's a great example with it's popping rhythms and percussion. Not only is this an album highly undeserved of it's poor reputation but it actually represents a significant leg up for the group who had a great funk sound before hand but really couldn't do a lot to expand on it as it had existed before. Nelson George once quoated that most jazz,R&B and soul musicians tend to be progressive by nature;the music has to be able to be expand into the future to make the experience worthwhile for them or they'll tend to reject it. So before a band such as Tower Of Power would reject the style with which they'd made their name so well they'd be more inclined to change the STYLE in which they played it first. And that's all they did on this album. So unless one totally rejects late 70's production and musical styles over the sound of the earlier part of the decade theirs absolutely no need for the average TOP or R&B/funk/soul fan to run screaming from this because,if you listen from that expansive point of view you'd likely have to agree this is just excellent soul/funk from it's era through and through.