Superfly
Curtis Mayfield

Never herd of this or the film it’s soundtracking… The album opens with little child runnin’ wild it’s really good the rhythm is perfect backing the song ( especially the brass instrumental works)! For a very upfront song about drugs pusherman is very decent the highlight is the drum work for sure, fairly sporadic and tribal sounding ( like hitting well tuned pots and pans). The funk really shows in Freddie’s dead it’s an amazingly put together tune (but not something that I would go out of my way listening to). Side one end’s with the short instrumental track Junkie chase, It sounds like a chase track to be fair ( quite a classy one) but still a chase. Then we have Give me your love ( love song) it’s cool (one of the best) but it takes a little too much time to get going really. Eddie you should’ve known better is a bit of a quality drop, I mean the lyrics are good but the instrumentals were a bit more like lift music. No thing on me ( cocaine song) is really solid, fine the instrumental work isn’t the most interesting on the album but it’s a good track about cocaine dependance. Then we have the penultimate track think ( instrumental) it’s nice and calming nothing particularly special but stupid great. The album closes with the title track superfly and it closes everything perfectly, if it weren’t a soundtrack/ concept album I probably would’ve closed with something different but for what it is it’s great. It’s a great album with no tracks that are god awful and unlike most concept albums I actually got a grip of the concept and what a great way to do it! A definite 4/5 (would be a 5 if there were less instrumentals and other great songs to fill in as it’s a little short).

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