Prince One Step Closer to Over-Saturating the Internet with New Music

We may have already fudged up our New Year's resolutions by napping through spin class and substituting pudding for dinner for the last four out of five days. Prince, however -- being the magical, too-rad-to-be-human pop icon that he is -- is already making good on his.

Fresh from announcing plans to self-release three whole new albums in 2009, the Purple One has launched a new website, LotusFlow3r.com. The site features streaming tracks (which you may remember from a few weeks ago), a wee Purple Rain screencap and Prince's usual disregard for the fact numbers are not, in fact, interchangeable with the alphabet. And, in time, the site promises to become the go-to spot for purchasing his three new albums (and not healing runes and guardian angel bookmarks as the iTunes-meets-new-age-bookstore artwork might suggest).

Recently, Prince revealed to the L.A. Times that two of the upcoming records are under the working titles MPLSOUND and Lotus Flower. MPLSOUND -- a vowels-optional reference to the star's Minneapolis turf -- is said to be "electro-flavoured" Prince. As for Lotus Flower, the Times says that the purple-hazy guitar tracks leaked in late December -- including "Crimson and Clover," "Colonized Mind" and "Wall of Berlin" -- are expected to appear on that disc.

No word yet as to when the full albums will surface, but new songs "Crimson and Clover," "There Will Never B Another 1 Like Me" and "Here Eye Come" are currently streaming online at LotusFlow3r.com

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