| Artist |
Prince & 3rdEyeGirl |
| Album Title: |
Plectrumelectrum |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Rock: Progressive Rock |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
09/29/2014 |
| Label |
Warner Bros. Records |
| Catalog No |
545610-2 |
| Bar Code No |
0 9362-49333-5 9 |
| Packaging |
Cardboard Gatefold |
| Tracks |
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Wow (4:27)
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| 2.
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Pretzelbodylogic (3:26)
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| 3.
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Aintturninround (3:01)
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| 4.
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Plectrumelectrum (4:51)
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| 5.
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Whitecaps (3:42)
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Fixurlifeup (3:12)
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| 7.
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Boytrouble (3:52)
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Stopthistrain (3:40)
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| 9.
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Anotherlove (4:15)
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Tictactoe (3:38)
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| 11.
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Marz (1:48)
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| 12.
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Funknroll (4:09)
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| Date Acquired |
10/03/2014 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Best Buy |
| Purchase Price |
9.99 |
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All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
CD and a twenty-eight page booklet packaged in a dual-pocket gatefold card sleeve, with title sticker affixed.
Mastered By – NPG
Photography By, Art Direction – Jesse Draxler, Madison Dube
Producer, Arranged By, Composed By, Performer [Per4med By] – 3RDEYEGIRL, Prince
Recorded By, Mixed By – Ben Mühlethaler, Chris James, Jamie Lewis, Joshua Welton
Copyright © – NPG Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – NPG Records, Inc.
Published By – NPG Music Publishing
Licensed To – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Recorded At – Paisley Park Studios
Recorded At – Studio One, London
Mixed At – Paisley Park Studios
Mixed At – Studio One, London
Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Olyphant, PA – Z131430
Pressed By – Cinram, Olyphant, PA – Z131430
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Analyzed Folder: Prince & 3rdEyeGirl - PlectrumElectrum_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR5 -0.00 dB -6.03 dB 01 - Wow.flac
DR6 -0.00 dB -7.73 dB 02 - Pretzelbodylogic.flac
DR5 -0.00 dB -6.68 dB 03 - Aintturninround.flac
DR6 -0.00 dB -6.81 dB 04 - Plectumelectrum.flac
DR6 -0.00 dB -7.46 dB 05 - Whitecaps.flac
DR6 -0.00 dB -7.13 dB 06 - Fixurlifeup.flac
DR6 -0.00 dB -7.33 dB 07 - Boytrouble.flac
DR9 -0.00 dB -10.50 dB 08 - Stopthistrain.flac
DR5 -0.00 dB -6.30 dB 09 - Anotherlove.flac
DR6 -0.00 dB -7.45 dB 10 - Tictactoe.flac
DR7 -0.00 dB -7.37 dB 11 - Marz.flac
DR5 -0.00 dB -5.81 dB 12 - Funknroll.flac
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Number of Files: 12
Official DR Value: DR6
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
A companion record to the solo effort Art Official Age, PlectrumElectrum finds Prince backed by 3rdEyeGirl, the all-female power trio that is a band for the 2010s. If Art Official Age veered toward revamped soul, PlectrumElectrum, as its convoluted title suggests, celebrates guitar freakouts: it's heavy on fuzz tones and pummeling backbeats, taking digressions into spacious jazz fusion and clean funk. Prince doesn't take the lead all that often -- he steps to the mike for the hardest rockers, the exception being "Anotherlove" -- letting Donna Grantis or Ida Nielsen front the softer, quirkier numbers. The carousel of lead vocalists suits the carnivalesque tone of PlectrumElectrum, which feels casually virtuosic as it slides from thick rockers into slow jams before jolting itself to life with a shot of distortion. There are distinct differences from Art Official Age -- there's an elasticity to the rhythms that contrasts with the precision of the beats, 3rdEyeGirl seize any opportunity to blast away the confines of the song so they can simply jam -- but take away the reliance on guitar rock and this album draws from a similar source of slow smooth soul, pop, and hammy rap that feels deliberately divorced from hip-hop. Perhaps you could call this celebration of traditional musicianship old-school, but more than anything PlectrumElectrum feels like it belongs to its own little universe, a place that not only celebrates all of Prince's favorite sounds but his own kinks and eccentricities. If those eccentricities don't feel as strange or startling as they once did, blame that on the curse of being a veteran: he's not exploring new territory but building upon the ground he's already claimed for himself. And if the songs on PlectrumElectrum don't stick the way those on Art Official Age do, it's nevertheless a quiet thrill to hear Prince spar with worthy partners, as he does throughout this record.
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