Prince’s New Song Needs Some of His Old Kinkiness

“All these computers and digital gadgets are no good,” Prince declared in an interview two years ago. And that was before the mercurial mononym subjected the Internet to “Rock & Roll Love Affair,” his first new release since 20Ten and his most disappointing since The Rainbow Children. His Purpleness has never been afraid of calling back to his catalog, but never before has he sounded so dated as in this “When You Were Mine” retread with phoned-in guitar work, uninterested vocals an...

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