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Music from Prince's legendary vault is about to be released

by Richard Howard

Prince fans have been salivating since it was revealed that the singer’s legendary vault, containing enough music to release an album annually for a century, had finally been opened.

Now, after making fans squirm for months, Warner Bros. has announced that they’re finally ready to open the vault will start releasing Prince’s previously unheard music starting next month on a 40-track greatest hits album called Prince4Ever (real imaginative, guys). The album comes with a 12-page photo book but, more importantly, features previously unreleased song “Moonbeam Levels.”

For Prince fans, it’s a mixed bag; a 1982 recording of the song, which is unsurprisingly fantastic, has been in circulation since 2002, though it’s great that it is finally getting an official release.

But next year, shit gets real.

Warner is reissuing Prince’s 1984 classic Purple Rain, something that was planned before the singer’s death, but in a statement, the label every fan’s day by announcing they’ll pair it with a second album consisting entirely of previously unreleased songs. Whether they’ll be tracks bootleggers have had for decades or something entirely unheard is unknown, but it nonetheless signals the opening of the proverbial Prince floodgates.

[h/t CTV News]