Stax compilations that zero in on the label's final phase in the late '60s and early '70s can often disappoint as too slickly produced, or lacking in strong original material.
"On the Streets’ first album in nine years, the UK rapper returns to the simple snark of his early music, but his youthful misadventures have been replaced by the jaded pronouncements of middle age." -Pitchfork
In 1969, Holland, Westbound Records opened up its doors as one of the most adventurous mainstream record labels to commit music to vinyl. Over the following decade it would release pop, jazz, sweet soul and some wonderfully deranged funk.