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Sade
Lovers Rock
By Carla Robinson
I spent the first few days listening to Sade’s new disc just digging that
she’s back. It was like hearing from a long-lost girlfriend. I’d missed her
vibe, and all I did while she was gone was mull over old pictures and replay the songs
that used to connect us. Now, eight long years after the triple platinum Love Deluxe, Sade
follows up with Lovers Rock. Was it worth the wait?
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Vocally, yes - although Sade never soars like
she did on “Is It A Crime.” But musically Sade’s fifth studio album
(excluding 1994’s greatest hits compilation) is another story. The biggest innovation
in soul music today is the return to live instruments, leaving the synthesized sound for
less paid artists who have little choice. I hate to say it, but the production on Lovers
Rock often sounds cheap. The title track proves that, as a band, Sade could take cues from
its old self. Promise (1985) is more musically up-to-date than Lovers Rock.
But lyrically, as always, Sade delivers. “Lovers Rock” is saved by its
unswerving gratitude. The heady, hip-hop tinged “Flow” asks, “Is it
possible I could feel this good I could really love you the way I do?” “King of
Sorrow,” with its aching guitar echoing the lament in Sade’s voice, is solid on
all levels and packs an emotional wallop: “I’m crying everyone’s tears/And
there inside our private war I died the night before.” Other standouts include
“Somebody Already Broke My Heart” and the pretty “All About Our Love.”
M
December 2000
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