"War's third album as an act separate from Eric Burdon was also far and away their most popular. The culmination of everything they'd been shooting for creatively on their two prior albums, it featured work in both succinct pop-accessible idioms ("The Cisco Kid," etc.) as well as challenging extended pieces such as the 13-minute "City, Country, City" and the title track, and encompass not only soul and funk but elements of blues and psychedelia on works such as the exquisite "Four Cornered Room." "The Cisco Kid" and "The World Is a Ghetto" understandably dominated the album's exposure, but there's much more to enjoy here, even decades on. Beyond the quality of the musicianship, the classy, forward-looking production has held up remarkably well, and not just on the most famous cuts here; indeed, "The World Is a Ghetto" is of a piece with Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and Curtis Mayfield's "Curtis", utilizing the most sophisticated studio techniques of the era." (Bruce Eder, Allmusic)
