Love Deluxe
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Love Deluxe
Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by English band Sade. It was released in the United States on 26 October 1992 and in the United Kingdom on 1 November 1992 by Epic Records.-Wikipedia
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Pirchfork
April 9, 2017. Sade’s 1992 album is a luxurious world of its own. Their most monolithic album is an ocean of quiet storm, R&B, and jazz-pop that surrounds Sade Adu’s timeless expressions of desire and heartache.
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Albumism
October 24, 2017. If ever there was a band whose musical output embodies the notion of “quality over quantity,” it’s unquestionably Sade. . . . . Love Deluxe remains their magnum opus, its unequivocal brilliance still shining as bright as ever two and a half decades on.
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50Thirdand3rd
May 1, 2017. Love Deluxe will always be one of my favorite records in part because of its broad view of the human condition, the sensuous music and the character of the lead performer. More than that, it touched my soul and expressed emotions and beliefs that I’d never quite been able to articulate, and for that I am deeply grateful to Sade Adu.
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AllMusic
Sade's fourth album, Love Deluxe, included the hit "No Ordinary Love" and marked a return to the detached cool jazz backing and even icier vocals that made her debut album a sensation.
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Entertainment
November 13, 1992. After a four-year hiatus, MC Soignée is back. Sade, the high priestess of understated cool, heats up on the fabulous ”No Ordinary Love,” which surges with emotion, but the mostly lush ambient music on Love Deluxe is low on the oomph meter.
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SoulBounce
December 20, 1012. Love Deluxe remains her most mainstream-accessible, yet consistently brilliant album to date.
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Get Started
February 6, 2019. Perhaps the album is the sound of 90s romance, which is why I very likely returned to Love Deluxe again and again (and still do 25+ years later). I wanted to feel that melancholy wrapped in longing, which this music brings out so effortlessly.
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Alex's Acapella Analysis
April 10, 2014. This album Love Deluxe is considered by many her magnum opus, her masterpiece, her crowning achievement, and I emphasize this because I completely believe it. Not many albums released by artists can pack this level of cohesiveness, solidity, catchiness, variation, and memorability into 9 songs, totalling about 46 minutes of time.
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The Guardian
May 13, 2012. The band reached their peak of opulent sound design on the aptly titled album Love Deluxe; its seven-minute epic of a lead single is as bleak as it is sensual, casting heartbreak as the greatest luxury of all.
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Robert Christgau
I'm unable to find fault with her more memorable songs--keep falling asleep before I've finished the sentence. But I swear on a stack of Billboards that half these nine fail to qualify.
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dereksmusicblog
January 24, 2012. Love Deluxe was the fourth album of Sade’s career and to me, is the best album of her near thirty year career. It matched the commercial success of 1984s Diamond Life, 1985s Promise and her previous album 1988s Stronger Than Pride.
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Funknstuff
February 24, 2019. Minimalist jazzy arrangements cradle her signature warm, breathy vocals as she croons about true love and perseverance.
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Audiogon Discussion Forum
January 13, 2006. There was a gap of four years between her third album and the fourth, which was due to the fact that the break-up with Carlos had a bad effect on her as she went into depression. Somehow to me the fourth album “Love Deluxe” sounds mature and laid back. The songs depict the agony she went through.
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The Daily Vault
December 30, 2010. From start to finish, this baby is as smooth, slick, and soulful as it gets, and not only does it contain some of the group’s best moments, it possibly is the most commercial of their albums to date.
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