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"Sheila E(scovedo) is best known as Prince's Lovesexy-era musical director and the drummer on some of his greatest recordings, including Purple Rain and Sign O' the Times. However, her considerable pedigree also includes spells with Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye, and a sporadic solo career most remembered for sublime 1985 pop hit The Belle of St Mark. Her first album in a decade seems determined to cram in all this and more. There are conga drum masterclasses, smoochy R&B, 1980s-type pop rock, sugary ballads, Latin grooves (salsa godfather Tito Puente was literally her godfather) and, of course, the sort of elongated bump'n'grinds familiar to fans of Prince Rogers Nelson. The Purple Imp isn't on Nasty Thang, but his funky DNA is all over it, and he does show up to co-write and play piano on The Leader of the Band, a conga-bashing Latin funk jam that could have fitted on any of his latter-day albums. However, elsewhere, sultry R&B stomper Girl Like Me makes a determined bid tostepout of the long shadow".

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