Prince: Parade (Original Soundtrack - Under The Cherry Moon)
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 12 April 1986
I TOOK 'Kiss' as a signal that we were being ushered back into the compressed, airtight funkworld of Dirty Mind. Didn't flip over the song itself slick metronome sexgospel but what a relief to hear that funky, flecked, flicking guitar again.
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