Earth, Wind & Fire's return to Warner Bros. with 1993's Millennium proved to be short-lived -- the album failed to meet the company's expectations commercially. Four years later, EWF ended up on the independent Miami-based Pyramid label with the surprisingly retro In the Name of Love. More personnel changes had taken place, but thankfully, Maurice and Verdine White and Philip Bailey were still onboard for what was EWF's most live-sounding, least high-tech offering since 1983's Powerlight. (However, EWF had been touring ...
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Earth, Wind & Fire's return to Warner Bros. with 1993's Millennium proved to be short-lived -- the album failed to meet the company's expectations commercially. Four years later, EWF ended up on the independent Miami-based Pyramid label with the surprisingly retro In the Name of Love. More personnel changes had taken place, but thankfully, Maurice and Verdine White and Philip Bailey were still onboard for what was EWF's most live-sounding, least high-tech offering since 1983's Powerlight. (However, EWF had been touring without Maurice since 1994). Live horns and real instruments abound, and everything from the ballads "Cruising," "When Love Goes Wrong" and "Right Time," to the punchy funk ditty "Rock It" sounds like it could have been recorded in the '70s. One very pleasant surprise is a remake of "Love of Life," which the pre-Bailey EWF embraced on its self-titled debut album of 1971. Bailey's son, Sir James Bailey, raps on the sociopolitical "Revolution," but on the whole, this excellent CD is unapologetically retro. [Reissued, strangely in 2006, Earth, Wind & Fire's In the Name of Love appears on Maurice White's Kalimba Records, and is essentially the same recording as the 1997 version released on Rhino (without the groovy cover). That said, inexplicably, the tracks are in different order from the original, and contain a pair of newly recorded bonus tracks, "Change Your Mind," (the radio single that works like prime EWF) and the lesser, throwaway demo of a jazz intro, "Bahia."] ~ Alex Henderson and Thom Jurek, Rovi
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