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| 4.0 excellent | StrizzMatik | July 9th 10 |
20Ten may have been the record that almost killed off teh internet, but at least it's pretty damn good. This is Prince's most solid offering in years, arguably trumping even the last five or so records he's put out that were considered to be returns-to-form, or at least a semblance of it. On 20Ten Prince melds his jazzier, funkier stylings with the Minneapolis sound that he pioneered over twenty years ago, clearly paying tribute to the pop stylings that made him such a massive crossover success and in turn making the freshest Prince album in almost twenty years. The internet may be over, but Prince proves with 20Ten he was only warming up.
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| 0.0 | | November 14th 12 |
Once again abandoning retailers for U.K. newspaper giveaways -- ever the eccentric, he’s the only artist who's seized upon this unconventional distribution method -- Prince continues his bold voyage into the past on 20Ten. Its title may celebrate the present but the music is all about the past, continuing the retro-shock of the MPLSound segment of 2009’s triple-disc set, reviving the synthetic funk of the pre-Purple Rain days while adding too heavy a dose of slow-burning grooves. The songs have more snap and polish than those on LotusFlow3r/MPLSound -- enough of a shape to be attractive from a distance, not enough to withstand closer scrutiny. Everything on 20Ten exists on the surface: hooks don’t sink in, funk jams are stuck in low gear, sensuality only simmers, the rhythms are somewhat stiff, and Prince’s deliberate mining of the past only highlights how he’s stripped the freakiness out of his entire persona. What’s left behind isn’t bad -- he is a master musician luxuriating in his comfort zone so naturally that there’s some pleasure to be had within 20Ten, but it’s a passive pleasure and one that is forgotten within a day, so perhaps it’s fitting that it was packaged with a newspaper.
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| 2.5 average | Merlijn | August 30th 25 |
| 3.5 great | Adol | June 29th 20 |
| 2.0 poor | solrage | September 26th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Jakor | July 5th 16 |
| 2.5 average | FunkyR | September 17th 14 |
| 1.0 awful | JSPRG | February 16th 13 |
| 3.0 good | t67 | September 21st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | kygermo | January 13th 11 |
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