No Mystery (1975)

Wat onbekendere RTF-plaat die vlak vóór de klassieker "Romantic Warrior" werd uitgebracht, na lange tijd in 2017 eindelijk weer leverbaar op CD (dure Japanse importversies niet meegerekend). "The fourth edition of Return to Forever was a band that emphasized the screaming wah-wah guitar of Al Di Meola and every electric keyboard Chick Corea could get his hands on to play furiously fast runs. Where the initial, airy Flora Purim/Airto/Joe Farrell edition gave way to the second undocumented group featuring Earl Klugh, and the third band with electric guitarist Bill Connors, this RTF was resplendently and unapologetically indulgent, ripping through riffs and charted, rehearsed melodies, and polyrhythms like a circular saw through a thin tree branch. Their immediacy and visceral power is why rock audiences were drawn to them, impressed by their speed-demon vagaries as much as their concern for musicality." (Michael G. Nastos, Allmusic; 3,5 uit 5 sterren)