Prince: Come (WEA)
Gavin Martin, Vox, September 1994
THIS IS THE last ever album to be released by 'Prince' before he metamorphoses, full time, into a 'Symbol', and it reeks of salacious sex, body sweat, kitsch poetry and keen animal instinct.
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