Pulse magazine,Tower Records free magazine, reviews The Rainbow Children in its March issue (Alanis Morissete cover).

{{{Not quite a musical, Prince's The Rainbow Children(NPG) features narration that connects its songs. It's also his best album in more than a decade}}}, at least since Lovesexy. For the narration, Prince slow his voice like Darth Vader.Years ago, he regularly sped up his voice, favoring a randy high-pitched effect snagged from Funkadelic. Here, the impact makes The Rainbow Children sound less like a band and more like a religous sect. Listeners will complain about the narration intruding, though nothing here is as egregious as the dialogue that obscured Pete Townshend's 1993 album, Psychoderelict.(Townshend released a dialouge-free version,confirming the songs weren't good on their own.) The Rainbow Children, with its echoes of Steely Dan and james Brown, has a healthy serving of new favourites("Rainbow Children,""Muse 2 the Pharoah," "The Work Pt. 1"), even if, at times, it sounds like someone is talking during the movie.

Marc Weidenbaum

4 months after release, and some people are just now reviewing it...

wellbeyond said:

LOL! ain't that the truth??

He enjoys "The Rainbow Children"...good.

untill the end of time
i'll b there 4 u
you own my hart and mind
i truly adore u

The Rainbow Children is a great CD, good 2 see this critic could look beyond the 'voice'.

TRC IS DA BOMB

TRC was only released in January in Britain, so it's only 2 months late.

Tower records were the only shop that even had a vague notion what I was talking about when I asked if they would be stocking TRC after release. Is this the UK edition of Pulse (or does it go worldwide?)

vivid said:

What? It hasn't had an official release in the UK, and I got my import copy in Glasgow last November...

I'm not sure 'the rainbow children' has ever been released in the UK. US import only. Hence the lack of UK reviews & it also explains TRC at this late date still getting the occasional review.