The Rance Allen Group did not christen its third Stax LP
Brothers solely because it boasts some of the most extraordinary sibling harmonies ever committed to wax. Instead, the title invokes the brotherhood of all mankind, appealing to the universal consciousness in the name of spiritual unity and racial harmony. Stripping their potent gospel-soul approach to its bare musical essentials,
Brothers is the group's purest expression of form and intent, spanning from the fierce polemics of "Get Your Lives Together" to the rapturous joy of the
Stevie Wonder cover "For Once in My Life."
Rance Allen's remarkable falsetto swoops and soars with angelic grace, communicating the kinds of emotional truths that render distinctions between the spiritual and the secular positively moot.