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This was album number ten for the Princely one and would see the experimental side of Prince coming to the fore, it was one of the least successful album (sales wise) he recorded up until this point. Even so, it’s chock full of groovy goodness and contains one my favourite ever Prince tunes: Alphabet Street.

Compared to a lot of his tunes the sound is quite sparse on this track, but the groove is so cool. In fact, the whole album feels as though it’s an experiment in groove. Dance On is all about that wild fusion drum pattern at the intro. The outro track Positivity has elements of Asian music to add to the feel and vibe of a very percussive focused album.

Not his best work for sure, but I like it and I thought it was cool that he took so many risks.

8/10 from The Grooveman.

This is the RSD expanded promo edition of Prince’s 1995 album. He was at war with his label at the time, and was referred to as Symbol as an FU to them. Interspersed with weird moments, referred to as NPG Operator, this is a classic 90’s Prince album.

The classic Prince funk of P. Control that you have to be dead not to groove to is present in We March. There are superb pop, crossover tunes like The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, which is so slick and polished it feels somewhat out of place with the madness that ensues everywhere else. 319 is my favourite track, it’s just groovy as hell and is just PRINCE. I’m sure everyone somewhere loves at least one Prince album as the guy was a genius. Production is awesome, as usual, and it sounds huge.

9/10 from The Grooveman.