- disco, funk, smooth soul
- 38 min
- 9 tracks
- CBS
Raise! is the eleventh studio album by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released in October 1981, by ARC/Columbia Records. The album spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard Top R&B albums chart and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart. Raise! has been certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA, Gold in the UK by the BPI and Gold in Canada by Music Canada.
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Character
Classical in form, warm, spare and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- AllMusic2/5 ★
- LA WeeklyB−
- The Philadelphia Inquirer3/5 ★
- Record Mirror4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Smash Hits7/10
- The Village VoiceB+
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Tracks
- 1Let’s Groove5:37
- 2Lady Sun3:40
- 3My Love4:35
- 4Evolution Orange4:38
- 5Kalimba Tree0:25
- 6You Are a Winner4:10
- 7I’ve Had Enough4:36
- 8Wanna Be With You4:36
- 9The Changing Times5:55
9 tracks, 38 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Label
- CBS
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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