This week in New Reviews, we have not one but three new albums from Prince: LOtUSFLOW3R, MPLSoUND and Elixer by his protégée Bria Valente. First, LOtUSFLOWER finds the Purple One embracing his inner-guitar god. “Whether it’s the spare funk of ‘Wall of Berlin,’ the metal grind of ‘Dreamer’ or the hazy cover of ’Crimson and Clover,’ the music kicks into high gear when Prince starts soloing, delivering one epic face melter after another in a style halfway between David Gilmour’s and Eddie Hazel’s,” Gavin Edwards writes in his three-star review. “The drawback is that when he isn’t playing guitar, the music on this disc is oddly muted.”

Even better is the three-and-a-half star, funky MPLSoUND. As Edwards writes, “Five of MPLSoUND’s nine songs sound like lost B sides from assorted classic Prince albums (Dirty Mind, 1999, Controversy, etc.); these days, even a really good Prince song usually reminds the listener of a better, earlier one.” And Rounding out the collection is Elixir, which mustered a two-star rating. “Prince has touted Elixer as a quiet-storm album in the Sade mode, but most of it is just generic pop ballads.” Still, it’s hard to complain when all three albums have been packaged together at the low price of $11.99 exclusively through Target (or $77 if you joined Prince’s new membership-based LOtUSFLOW3R Website.

Also out today: the latest disc from PJ Harvey and John Parish, A Woman A Man Walked By. Harvey’s last album, 2007’s White Chalk, was her quietest ever, but her roar returns on Woman. Will Hermes writes that Polly Jean is “gleefully deranged” on the LP, going “animalistic on the title track … and echoing the strap–on threat from her classic “50Ft Queenie.”

UGK’s UGK 4 Life also hits shelves today. The album brings member Pimp C, who died of an accidental overdose in 2007, “back from the dead,” as the deceased rapper eerily proclaims in the LP’s opening track. “Pimp’s surviving partner, Bun B, doesn’t wallow in the macabre. Instead, we get UGK basics: songs about drugs, sex and flossing, flavored with thudding, no–nonsense beats,” Jody Rosen writes in his three-and-a-half star review. The album serves as a proper send off to Pimp C, reminding us that we’ve lost “one of its most musical and melodic MCs.”

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