"...with his distinctively rich voice and politicized club-jazz style, Scott-Heron sounds as fresh and phat as the latest from GangStarr's Guru or A Tribe Called Quest...." - Rating: A-, "...as an artist whose talents as a singer don't hold a candle to what he does with the spoken word--thankfully captured on SPIRTS--it's pretty obvious why he survived the '80s by doing poetry readings...."
