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MPLSound - Prince
  • Band Name: Prince
  • Record Label: NPG
  • Release Date: Mar 29, 2009
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62 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

User Score
9.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

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  • Summary: After releasing Planet Earth for free in the United Kingdom, the singer-songwriter's three albums (one by new artist Bria Valente) are packaged together as a Target store exclusive in the United States. As the title implies, it contains some of the funk rock sounds he created.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Billboard
    80
    Mplsound is sometimes stronger still [than "Lotusflow3r"], with the party whoop of '(There'll Never B) Another Like Me,' the delicious dirty mind of 'Chocolate Box' and 'Ol' Skool Company,' which will have you partying like its 1985.
  2. Observer Music Monthly
    60
    MPLSound could be a thank-you note to those Parade-era purists patient enough to have stuck around.
  3. All Music Guide
    60
    On MPLSound, Prince takes his retro mission seriously enough to offer up a few songs nervy enough to be singles, even if the synthesized thrill of this handful of tunes is undercut by a bunch of slow-burning ballads that do their best to rival 'The Arms of Orion.'

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. MarkL
    8
    Best thing he's done in years. Leave it to Prince to promote the wrong disc as the main album of the three included. Lotusflower isn9;t bad, but MPLSound has got some real gems on it and is the real winner here.… Expand
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