If Art Official Age is a juicy reaffirmation of Prince pop basics, Plectrumelectrum, his collaborative album with 3rdEyeGirl, represents a more intriguing departure, even if it too reaches back into the past, making a bold connection with a time when Jimi Hendrix was the last great black American rock star, before funk really left rock 'n' roll to the white man. There is more than a whiff of Hendrix about the bravura title-track instrumental, a mesh of thick twin guitar hooks and free flying improvised solos over a rolling groove that keeps shifting beneath the heavy rock surface. It is, Read more on Last.fm.
