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9.1
69926
9.1 |
A.V. Club
An album so hot and memorable it scorches the ears upon first listen
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9.0
69885
9.0 |
Exclaim
Prince has recontextualized his sound so often, sometimes coming off as Prince covering Prince, but here, he's landed feet first in a sweet spot of nostalgic innovation
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8.4
69928
8.4 |
Paste Magazine
Prince’s funky response to the frigid musical landscape of the new millennium
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8.0
69973
8.0 |
The FT
Honeyed R&B ballads, bustling funk, distorted vocals, falsetto yelps, lush melodies and don’t-try-this-at-home romantic advice
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8.0
70025
8.0 |
The Observer
This is a far better album than you’d dare hope from the latterday Prince
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8.0
69883
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Blends signature (and some quite ordinary) funk tunes with a clutch of the best ballads Prince has written in many years
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7.0
69918
7.0 |
musicOMH
We haven’t seen the end of him yet. And on the single-minded evidence of Art Official Age, that’s very much a good thing
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7.0
69886
7.0 |
PopMatters
Littered with numerous allusions to his discography but cleverly adapts them into new, modern stylings
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Music
This album suggests Prince looks set to kick off a new and invigorated phase of his illustrious career
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6.5
69939
6.5 |
Pitchfork
Musically, Art Official Age is all over the map—gloriously so, in fact—as though Prince is trying to cram a triple album into a single disc
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6.0
69887
6.0 |
Uncut
The sort of goofily half-arsed concept album we've come to expect. Print edition only
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6.0
69892
6.0 |
The Guardian
There are fantastic songs here, among them the drum machine-driven, effects-laden electro-funk of Clouds
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6.0
69925
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Art Official Age's main takeaway is that His Royal Badness has started to make peace with being past his prime
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6.0
69884
6.0 |
All Music
He leaves all his millennial flirtations at the margins of the record, grounding it in old-fashioned notions of seduction and soul
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5.8
70291
5.8 |
Consequence Of Sound
Sounds more like a hit Prince album due to its modern production
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4.5
69943
4.5 |
Beardfood
There's just too much offputting material here
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4.0
69896
4.0 |
Q
It's Prince as pint-sized Theophilus P Wildebeeste: never his most loveable alter ego. Print edition only
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