Art Official Age
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| Studio album by Prince | ||||
| Released | September 26, 2014 | |||
| Genre | R&B, electro-funk | |||
| Length | 53:16 | |||
| Label | NPG, Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Prince, Joshua Welton | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | A– |
| Chicago Tribune |  |
| The Daily Telegraph | |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| The Observer | |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.5/10 |
| Q | |
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| Slant Magazine | |
Art Official Age is the thirty-seventh studio album by American recording artist Prince. It was released on September 26, 2014 by NPG Records under a renewed license to Warner Bros. Records, marking the second collaboration of both parties since 1995's The Gold Experience.
Prince also released the album Plectrumelectrum, with his touring band 3rdeyegirl, simultaneously.
Art Official Age debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 and sold 51,000 copies in its first week. In its second week of sales, the album dropped to number 22 on the chart, selling 15,000 copies, bringing the total to 66,000 copies.
Art Official Age received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 24 reviews. In his review for the Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot said that it is "a more substantial and stranger album" than Plectrumelectrum. Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times called it "an exquisite Prince R&B album", while The Daily Telegraph's Neil McCormick said it is "a slick, seductive electro funk sci-fi concept album".Kitty Empire was favorable toward Prince's use of digital production in her review for The Observer and called it "a far better album than you'd dare hope from the latterday Prince".Billboard magazine's Kenneth Partridge said Prince is "funnier, sexier, and more self-aware than he's been in ages" and that the album is his most creative since the 1990s.
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