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About New Power Soul
Product description Satisfaction guaranteed. Ships next business day. Amazon.com After Emancipation's three discs and Crystal Ball's four-pack, here's good news for folks with day jobs: Newpower Soul is one CD. The bad news? It may be less than two hours long, but it isn't any less indulgent or erratic. The fault lies in the Artist's seeming unwillingness to keep abreast of musical trends. It's odd that a musician who, at his height, redefined black music by going against the grain is now content to dredge up the most innocuous prefab funk and expect his fans to take it as innovation. Where once we partied like it was 1999, now the former Prince just wants us to "Push It Up!" to a woeful reprise of Emancipation's bland "Jam of the Year." This is funk as good-time boogie music, which of course it can be, but once he infused the bass line with a sly apocalyptic vision that meant more than just "get down." Unfortunately, on Newpower Soul there's little to be heard of the Artist's raging guitar lines--a sign, perhaps, that the prolific star has a rock record in the works? Best are midtempo tracks like "Come On," which motivates on a slinky slurred synth pattern and has that winking sexuality we associate with the Artist. Not bad but not great either, Newpower Soul is a minor speed bump on the long road that is the Artist's spectacular career. --Amy Linden Review Soul consists of simplistic party-man chants with inane lyrics. -- Entertainment Weekly As always, the Artist delivers pristine sonics, rich R&B textures and spectacular vocals. He fails to construct songs as infectious as "Kiss" or "Let's Go Crazy" but does keep the party cooking with addictive grooves that range from silky to thumping and sensual to funky. "Push It Up" and "(Eye Like) Funky Music" are dance-floor kindling, as is the brassy "When U Love Somebody" and a nasty, piano-stroked "Mad Sex." -- USA Today Like an old master whose great allegorical works are behind him, [Prince] is content to groove merrily along, offering 10 dance party jams that bounce and roll but have little to say. -- People Most of "New Power Soul" is bad George Clinton right down to the rubber-kneed basslines and appallingly shoddy cartoon sleeve. It's not a question of needing to know your porno-funk history to appreciate it either: stupid-fresh retro chic or not, this is ripe tripe on a silver platter. -- New Musical Express [T]here are witty touches in the funk-driven arrangements, but they're only mildly satisfying. For all his continued musical prowess, there is little of the illumination and daring of the great "Dirty Mind"/"Purple Rain" period. He remains a master of musical textures, but the absence of ideas leaves him a one- dimensional Artist. -- The Los Angeles Times
