audio review : 2010 ( album ) … Prince

audio review : 2010 ( album ) ... Prince

I would start with how awful the title is, but it’s Prince; the guy who made a song called 1999 in 1982; so in the name of pop music history, he’s forgiven. Besides, 2010, stylized as “20Ten”; an album that should’ve been released much earlier than seven months into the year; is a virtual time portal to his 1980s heyday.

That might literally be the case as the quirky synths of songs like Beginning Endlessly and Lavaux sound almost too good to be new. It’s as if the self-proclaimed Purple Yoda went digging into his own vault to salvage some never-before-released tapes. The grooves on some of these songs are surprisingly stellar.

Sticky Like Glue is, despite Prince trying to rap, one of his best songs. It’s a romantic love dedication at heart, but its sleeky funk also makes it a fitting pick for the dance clubs. It’s the dull slow songs and zany fillers, like Everybody Loves Me, that hold the album back from being the full return to form it could’ve been.

my rating : 3 of 5

2010

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