Prince
Come

THE REVIEW

There are albums that are forgotten or worse, underrated for no valid reason, perhaps without being listened to. This is one of those.

We are in 1994.

The little story is: Prince released a bad album because it's the last one with his hated record label, Warner; he wants to "get revenge" by delivering them a "mess". What an absurd story! Never would a true artist, like the one in question, be capable of tarnishing their own art by releasing a work they are not convinced of. In fact, the story has been passed down to the present day, the album was a commercial flop, I believe the least sold album by Prince.

Come is a Jazz piece with a strong funky and RnB accent, led by an amazing horn section and bass: 11.13 minutes of genius.

Loose is a funky-rock, fierce, Prince sings in an unusually aggressive and disdainful manner. He doesn't shy away from "releasing" his guitar in a fast and beautiful solo either.

In Papa, Prince unleashes a piece with blues connotations, but at the same time psychedelic and dark, with a sudden, unexpected, and disarming rock finale.

Dark is a timeless blues, played with style and balance, bass, horn section, Prince singing like a god, with a piercing, spine-tingling falsetto, and he indulges at the end with a brief acoustic solo: few touches, reminding us we are listening to one of the greatest guitarists of all time. No one in 1994 wrote and played music like this.

Race and Letitgo are two funky tracks, both new and old together, RnB and Jazz elements layered on the funky base, in an Urban style of great impact and modernity; listen to the "Jazz" electric guitar solo at the end of Letitgo, yet another "touch" of Prince's genius.

Solo is an emotional vocal solo, with a vaguely soul-gospel flavor, with a deliberately dissonant keyboard in the background, "dirtying" the beauty of the voice.

A sumptuous album, without any concessions to the commercial, from someone who until that moment, had released masterpieces but had also been careful to produce works capable of climbing the charts, albeit with quality beyond the "common" pop.

In my opinion, the best Prince ever.