Prince Touches Down On “Planet Earth”

noah | July 23, 2007 10:00 am
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Every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today’s entry is Prince’s Planet Earth, which hits stores in the U.S. tomorrow:

– “A whack to the right part of the machine, and his next whole album could be as hot as “Mr. Goodnight” and “Black Sweat” and, I don’t know, “Cinnamon Girl”. As it is, though, he’s firmly settled in a stylistic niche that’s delivering diminishing returns– and what made him great in the first place is that he never settled down anywhere for long.” (4.8) [Pitchfork] – “According to Prince, we still have wars because most of us secretly want them. That’s a rare perspective from this seldom contrary writer. How nice to know that, 30 years into his career, Prince can still keep those little surprises coming.” [NY Daily News] – “So Planet Earth spins, all right. But so far into his career, and with edgy producer-auteurs such as Timbaland and Pharrell littering the charts, this album isn’t the heavyweight genius knockout blow we were expecting from the artist formerly known as seminal.” [Observer]

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