In a perfect world, Prince would be enjoying a Madonna style renaissance at the moment. The signs looked good just last month there was the Brits performance that reunited him with his Lennon & McCartney (Wendy and Lisa), while the likes of Basement Jaxx, Pharrell and Daft Punk have based entire careers around an obscure B-side he squeezed out in 1985. Sadly, ‘3121’ is not the ‘Confessions Of The Purple Sex Dwarf’ album we really, really want it to be. Seemingly nixing all the surreal insanity that made him such a genius in the first place, he's made an album that doesn't really sound like Prince at all. whether it's aping flaccid Jermaine Dupri/NERD/Ying Yang-style beats or meandering bossanova, world music bleetings, ‘3121’ is the sound of a millionaire who has spent too much time in his studio alone.
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