Justin Timberlake: Filthy review – comeback single channels Prince for grown-up funk masterpiece
After fluffy megahit Can’t Stop the Feeling!, Timberlake goes dark and dangerous – and shows that his instinct for subtle, futurist R&B hasn’t deserted him
Justin Timberlake’s single Filthy is his first new release since his ambitious, occasionally riveting but ultimately bloated 2013 double album . Well, if you exclude his schmaltzy score for The Book of Love, and , a single released in tandem with the animated Trolls movie – a fluffy, kid-friendly pop
