PrinceWelcome 2 America

Slinky, humid funk cut live as a power trio in 2010, then shelved for eleven years. Prince found 21-year-old bass phenom Tal Wilkenfeld on YouTube, flew her and drummer Chris Coleman to Paisley Park, and told them nothing, no lyrics, no charts, no melodies. They had to read his mind. '1000 Light Years from Here' floats on spacey backing vocals and damp, popping bass. The grooves run fervid and ferocious, the politics weirdly prescient, calling out disinformation and racial reckoning years early. A lost Prince record that feels like a transmission from now. Press play and disappear into it.