Roses

How is it possible to create a song that’s laid back, yet highly sexed at the same time? Prince may have cooked up the formula, but it has taken two dapper dandies from Atlanta to perfect the craft. Having single-handedly raised the game in the pop charts of late, Andre 3000 and Big Boi resume their quest for world domination with yet more adroit pop/disco merriment. Not quite possessed of the immediacy or anthemic clout of ‘Hey Ya’, but it’s a cannily ‘come-hither’ record all the same.