The Isley Brothers: 3+3 (Epic)
Bob Fisher, NME, 2 February 1974
BLACK MUSIC is currently well entrenched in the process of mixing recent rock forms into the standard sound of soul, a process in which the Isley Brothers are well to the fore.
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