| Artist |
Prince |
| Album Title: |
Art Official Age |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Funk / Soul |
| Format |
Vinyl (2) |
| Released |
11/17/2014 |
| Label |
Warner Bros. Records |
| Catalog No |
9362-49332-7 |
| Bar Code No |
0 93624 93327 4 |
| Packaging |
Gatefold LP Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| Art Official Age (Disc 1) |
| A1.
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Art Official Cage (3:42)
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| A2.
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Clouds (4:34)
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| A3.
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Breakdown (4:04)
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| B1.
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The Gold Standard (5:53)
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| B2.
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U Know (3:57)
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| B3.
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Breakfast Can Wait (3:55)
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| Art Official Age (Disc 2) |
| A1.
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This Could Be Us (5:12)
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| A2.
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What It Feels Like (3:54)
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| A3.
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Affirmation I & II (0:40)
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| A4.
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Way Back Home (3:05)
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| B1.
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Funknroll (4:08)
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| B2.
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Time (6:50)
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| B3.
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Affirmation III (3:28)
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| Date Acquired |
09/26/2017 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Music Direct (Musicdirect.Com) |
| Purchase Price |
14.99 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide entry:
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Notes |
Arranged By [Strings] – Adi Yeshaya
Art Direction, Photography By – Maya Washington
Featuring – 3RDEYEGIRL, Andy Allo, Charlotte Ann Telepathy, H. C. I II III, Paloma Ayana, The Golden Hippie
Producer [Strings] – Michael B. Nelson
Producer, Arranged By, Composed By, Performer [Per4med By] – @3RDEYEGIRL, @JOSHUAWORLD
Recorded By, Mixed By – Chris James, Joshua A. M. Welton, Prince
Strings – STRINGenius
Copyright © – NPG Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – NPG Records, Inc.
Licensed To – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Published By – NPG Music Publishing
Recorded At – Paisley Park Studios
Mixed At – Paisley Park Studios
©NPG 2014. Warner Bros. Records Inc., A Warner Music Group Company
©℗2014 NPG Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Manufactured in the E.U.
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DR12 -1.66 dB -14.72 dB 02 - Clouds (featuring Lianne La Havas).wav
DR10 -0.26 dB -13.21 dB 03 - Breakdown.wav
DR11 -0.89 dB -12.81 dB 04 - The Gold Standard.wav
DR11 -1.02 dB -12.80 dB 05 - U Know (featuring Mila J).wav
DR11 -0.57 dB -13.09 dB 06 - Breakfast Can Wait.wav
DR10 -2.21 dB -13.33 dB 07 - This Could Be Us.wav
DR12 -0.88 dB -14.82 dB 08 - What It Feels Like (featuring Andy Allo).wav
DR15 -5.85 dB -22.72 dB 09 - Affirmation I & II (featuring Lianne La Havas).wav
DR10 -1.39 dB -13.56 dB 10 - Way Back Home (featuring Lianne La Havas).wav
DR10 -0.82 dB -12.61 dB 11 - Funknroll (Remix) .wav
DR12 -0.34 dB -14.26 dB 12 - Time (featuring Andy Allo).wav
DR11 -1.25 dB -15.32 dB 13 - Affirmation III (featuring Lianne La Havas).wav
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Number of files: 13
Official DR value: DR11
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| Reviews |
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Prince returned to Warner Bros. Records in a big way in 2014, settling a 15-year feud on terms that were decidedly in his favor. He acquired the rights to his masters, agreed to a series of deluxe reissues, and released two brand-new albums, one recorded on his own and one recorded with his backing power trio 3rdEyeGirl. Art Official Age, the album credited to his lonesome, finds Prince reveling in many of the sounds of the '80s, reviving his Bob George and Camille voices, dabbling in deep electro-funk on "What It Feels Like," indulging in a full-fledged freakout on "Funknroll." Despite all these winking allusions to his past, Art Official Age feels of piece not with the Revolution but rather the New Power Generation: underneath the squalls of guitar, psychedelic soul harmonies, and impish humor, this is a full-fledged R&B album, one that often echoes Diamonds and Pearls. Like that 1991 record, Art Official Age is heavy on dance songs with rapped verses that don't feel informed by hip-hop and slow-burning soul that pulls the past into the present. Some of Prince's modernization feels a bit ham-fisted -- he turns the Internet meme "This could be us but you playing" into a slow jam -- but he leaves all his millennial flirtations at the margins of the record, grounding it in old-fashioned notions of seduction and soul. If the album doesn't offer any startling surprises along the lines of the furious "Black Sweat" -- there's not much abandon here -- there's joy in hearing Prince embrace his lyrical eccentricities as he accessorizes his smooth jams and coiled, clean funk with such oddities as laser blasts and spoken introductions from what appear to be British nurses. Such quirks may be fleeting but their presence is enough, along with such fine songs as "Breakfast Can Wait," to elevate Art Official Age above 20Ten and other pro forma latter-day Prince records. [An LP version was also released in the U.K.]
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