"Best New Reissue" - "The World Is a Ghetto is a landmark album of '70s funk, one that deserves to be remembered alongside the best work of the Meters, Parliament-Funkadelic, and Sly and the Family Stone. The group's signature sound was amorphous, and the depth of their impact isn't as obvious as that of those bands. But the syncretic funk they forged, which reached its pinnacle on The World Is a Ghetto, is a personal and musical realization of the social harmony they spent their career fighting for".