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- Summary: After a 10-year hiatus, Sade returns with her sixth studio effort and first since 2000's "Lover's Rock."
- Record Label: Sony
- Genre(s): Pop, R&B, Soul
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Top Track
| Soldier Of Love | |
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| I've lost the use of my heart But I'm still alive Still looking for the life The endless pool on the other side It's a wild wild west I'm doing my... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 16 out of 19
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Mixed: 3 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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On songs like the space-folky ''Long Hard Road'' and the reggae-scented ''Babyfather,'' Sade exhales peerlessly while the boys behind her fluff one heck of a sonic pillow. Weary bones, rest here.
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"Soldier of Love" is unique in its confrontational tone, but it connects to the other best tracks on this album, which employ minimalism and the rules of cool to carefully reconstruct various musical styles.
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They’ve plied a unique blend of jazz, world, pop and soul for more than a quarter-century, and now they add heavier beats, craftier production and a wider arsenal of sounds and styles.
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Q MagazineElegantly downbeat, Soldier Of Love sparkles as a whole rather than as a collection of parts. [Mar 2010, p.107]
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But mostly “Soldier of Love” presents Sade as a genre unto herself; after 25 years, she remains alluring and subtly rewarding, while still keeping the listener at a safe distance, as if she had even deeper secrets to guard.
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Soldier is sumptuously melancholy, exquisitely beautiful R&B, perfect for crying on a very expensive sofa.
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Lacking rhythmic hypnotism and relatable most to those who are experiencing solitude created by romantic desertion, this is not your mother's Sade album.
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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Nov 7, 2011
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MichaelU.Feb 9, 2010Sade, one of the most consistent bodies of work by any group in the last 50 years. Remarkably still going strong.
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Dec 4, 2017
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Nov 21, 2010
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