Known for her one of a kind timeless sound, Sade has enjoyed phenomenal success both internationally and
stateside throughout the span of her twenty-five year career. Since the release of her debut album, 'Diamond Life'
in 1984 the band have seen all five of their studio albums land in the Top 10 on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart
selling a total of more than 50 million albums worldwide to date.
Soldier Of Love is Sades first album of original material in 10 years.
Tracks:
1. The Moon and The Sky
2. Soldier of Love
3. Morning Bird
4. Babyfather
5. Long Hard Road
6. Be That Easy
7. Bring Me Home
8. In Another Time
9. Skin
10. The Safest
Performer Notes
Sade's longest absence yet did not prevent their return from being an event. It at least seemed eventful whenever "Soldier of Love," released to radio a couple months prior to the album of the same title, was heard over the airwaves. Even with its brilliantly placed lyrical allusions to hip-hop past and present and its mature sound, the single stuck out on stations aimed at teens and twentysomethings, as well as points on the dial that court an older audience. It was the most musical and organic, while also the most dramatic yet least bombastic, song in rotation. Crisp snare rolls, cold guitar stabs, and at least a dozen other elements were deployed with tremendous economy, suspensefully ricocheting off one another as Sade Adu rewrote "Love Is a Battlefield" with scarred, assured defiance. While the song was an indication of its parent album's reliance upon organic instrumentation -- the band's use of synthesized textures and programming is greatly diminished -- it merely hinted at the dark, even fatalist, depth of heartache conveyed throughout the set. On "Bring Me Home," Adu is content in resignation ("Send me to slaughter/Lay me on the railway line"), while on "The Moon and the Sky," she projects a bruised and angered bewilderment ("You lay me down and left me for the lions"). The focus at least switches temporarily to a loved one on "In Another Time," in what resembles a love letter to (what is likely) a young daughter mistreated by members of both sexes ("Their whispers are hailstones in your face"; "Soon they'll mean nothing to you"). The bleakness is tempered with themes of survival and recovery, and a song that is truly sweet ("Babyfather"). Relatable most to those who are experiencing solitude created by romantic desertion, this is not your mother's Sade album. ~ Andy Kellman
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.58) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] flawless collection of glossy Anglo-soul torch songs....SOLDIER sustains the mellow vibe for the whole album..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.106) - "[The album] sticks faithfully to the lush quiet-storm sound that's influenced younger artists from Maxwell to Everything but the Girl." -- Grade: A
Paste (magazine) (p.64) - "SOLDIER OF LOVE is Sade's most musically ambitious, and it's also its most forlorn, its most heartbroken....An intense melancholy pervades these songs..."
Format:
CD
Country:
USA
Other Information:
88697638812
UPC:
0886976388126
Release Date:
8 February, 2010
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In a day and age when you turn on the radio and hear some of the most untalented people you've never heard of, it is so refreshing to hear some real music. This is what Sade does. They always give real music. The songs are slow, yes, but they all have a story behind them. This is nice and mellow music. The songs are wonderful. "In Another Time" is gorgeous. I love that song. Same with "The Moon and the Sky". " Skin" is a good track with a nice groove and a nice MJ reference in it. If you are a Sade fan, this is a good CD. If you are new to Sade, this is still a good CD. Try it and you will see. Plus Sade's voice is still as exotic and sexy as ever.
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