Prince
3121 3 1/2 stars



(Universal Motown)

Release Date: 3/21/2006

The purple sex machine comes to reclaim pop prominence
Reviewed by Nick Catucci



Even as a married Jehovah's Witness approaching the age of 50,
Prince still sounds horny. His twenty-fifth album sharpens the focus
of Musicology, 2004's sultry return to form, stripping his classic
sex funk down to its elements: anvil-heavy beats, grungy guitar and
soft-to-shrieking bedroom vocals. The results, following the pattern
of his recent records, aren't perfectly even. On "Te Amo Corazon," a
soggy Latin ballad, and "Get on the Boat," an up-with-people jam in
the spirit of Parliament-Funkadelic, his everpresent ambitions swamp
his primal drives. But the minimalist tracks rate among his
best. "Black Sweat" unveils the bump-and-glide blueprint Pharrell
Williams has been working from, and the raw, noisy "3121" updates
the apocalyptic party smash "1999" for a dark new millennium. More
than 25 years after he sang about screwing his sister, Prince is
perfectly sauve fighting off father time.

DOWNLOAD: "Black Sweat," "Lolita," "3121"


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