America Eats Its Young is Funkadelic’s most sprawling and schizophrenic statement, a double LP that straddles biting political commentary, orchestral soul, and deep funk grooves with equal parts ambition and madness. Recorded in both the U.S. and the U.K., it brought in a wider cast of players and leaned heavily into layered arrangements and Curtis Mayfield-style strings. George Clinton was clearly trying to expand the Funkadelic universe beyond acid rock into broader social critique, but the result is intentionally messy, often brilliant, and occasionally disorienting. It’s a flawed epic that bites off more than it can chew, but somehow that’s part of its oddball charm.
1972 US pressing on Westbound Records is well traveled but plays nicely.
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