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LOVERS ROCK won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Recorded between September 1999 & August 2000.
Personnel: Sade (vocals); Leroy Osbourne, Sade Adu (vocals); Stuart Matthewman (guitar, woodwinds, programming); Andy Nice (cello); Andrew Hale (keyboards, programming); Janusz Podrazik (keyboards); Karl Vanden (percussion).
Recording information: Deliverance Studio (08/1999-08/2000); Sarn Hook End, El Cortijo (08/1999-08/2000).
Photographer: Albert Watson .
Arranger: Sade.
Personnel: Sade Adu (vocals); Leroy Osbourne (vocals); Stuart Matthewman (guitar, woodwinds, programming); Andy Nice (cello); Andrew Hale (keyboards, programming); Janusz Podrazik (keyboards); Paul S. Denman (bass); Karl Vanden Bossche (percussion).
Spin (1/01, pp.113-4) - 8 out of 10 - "...An airy album, demo-like in its simplicity....Sade has never put out anything quite so ephemeral....practically hanging in the air like mist....devastating..." Q (12/00, pp.132-3) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Attractively bespoke..." Mixmag (12/00, p.181) - 5 out of 5 - "...Her glorious, bretahy vocals and raw and emotive production are as untainted and timeless as ever..." Vibe (12/00, pp.195-6) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...proves that such a remarkable voice can survive 8 years between albums and still sound vital. Her voice is controlled, elegant, and radiantly cool - so beautiful, so simple, so necessary..." Mojo (Publisher) (12/00, pp.110-1) - "...[Her] appealingly blank vocals are intricately layered and the delicate, spacious arrangements...underline her desolate quality....it still goes well with cocktails..."
sade is super sexy! sade is the best. this is her best cd by far. she only gets better. Submitted by jackal2060 (pearl, ms. , usa) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
soulfull Like fine wine, Sade just gets better with time. That voice is heaven. The whole composition is great. Remember reading reviews like this is really useless. Music unlike many other things in life speaks directly to your soul. There is no bad or good music, all that matters is that you enjoy it.
Others have opinions-but they do not matter. Submitted by buddha (Mesa, Arizona, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
Her BEST CD BY FAR YOU HAVE TO HEAR IT TO BELIEVE IT. I LISTEN TO THIS CD EVERY NIGHT!!!!! Submitted by Jessica (Norfolk, Va) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
deep and soulful This is avery smooth and soulful album..one of the best I^ve ever heard.The lyrics have also a great meaning. Submitted by a reviewer (switzerland) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
SADE is the best/CD is not First of all I have to say that SADE is my favorite artist. PERIOD.
However, I do feel that so much of the ROOT sound of SADE as a group was missing in this CD. With previous CDs, each CD took you to another level of appreciation of how she and the group could somehow transport you with their music, skillfully fusing the various real instruments with her unbelievable voice. Its this sound that made us fans feel like we had been transported to exactly where she was. Sometimes another setting, sometimes another mindset.
For me, its not about wanting her to sound the same and clone each album. I understand that its like knowing a good friend (through her music and lyrics that she wrote and produced) and after an 8 year absence there will be considerable change. I didn't expect her to be the same, but I feel that this album came down to everyone else's level as far as artistically in the majority of its tracks.
I will say that "King of Sorrow" I did absolutely love and no one else could have sung that song with the same type of subtle, matter-of-fact, yet passionate conviction that was in her voice. It was as if she spontaneously sung her thoughts out loud when she recorded that. "Somebody Already Broke My Heart" had a hint of the Sade root sounds with the violin strings bursting in for their remarkable effect like they did in some of her earlier work. Although I am a HUGE fan of what I recognized as slight Jamaican and hip-hop influences in some of her songs, I have to admit that I missed some of the more Latin influenced R&B that seemed to be the root of her earlier work. But I guess that work reflected more of the time in her life when she lived in Spain.
Previously, SADE as a group was hard to put in a R&B or Smooth Jazz box, they were what I then considered Alternative R&B, but I think this latest release can definitely be classified as R&B with Hop-Hop influences. Not that that is bad, its just that she has no need to come down to everyone else's level when they still have yet to get up to hers.
**A true SADE fan will not have to review anyones else's opinions in order to decide whether or not to purchase this CD. A true fan will already have the CD, just because its another stage in a friend's life that they wouldn't want to miss out on. Submitted by a reviewer (california) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
sade is super sexy!
soulfull
SADE is the best/CD is not
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