PrinceThe Truth

Prince mostly unplugged, and it's a rare close-up. Acoustic guitar and his bare voice carry these songs, with just enough electronic shading to keep it strange. The title track picks along quiet and conspiratorial, every breath audible. Elsewhere he turns soft and confessional, letting a melody hang in the air with nothing to hide behind. Intimate, stripped, and a little eerie. The sound of him singing in the next room. Drop the needle and lean in.