Earth, Wind & Fire - Open Our Eyes (KC-32712)

Artist: Earth, Wind & Fire
Title: Open Our Eyes
Catalog #: KC-32712
Label: Columbia Records
Year: 1974
Format: LP
Condition: VG+

Released in 1974, Open Our Eyes is the album where Earth, Wind & Fire's vision fully cohered — the spiritual ambition, the horn arrangements, the rhythmic complexity, and Philip Bailey's stratospheric falsetto all present and working in concert for the first time at this level. Mighty Mighty and Devotion are the anchors, but the album holds its quality throughout and points directly toward the run of classics that would follow. It marked the arrival of a band operating at a level few of their contemporaries could match. This VG+ copy plays cleanly — an essential early EWF title and a key piece for the funk, soul, or R&B collector tracing the band's ascent.