![]() ![]() Across Lovers Rock, Adu’s vocals, thick and low as always, recede into a breezy landscape of acoustic guitar, reggae bass, and simple percussion. ![]() Its 11 tracks share that understated energy, trading Sade’s signature luxuriance for a sparser, knottier sound, landing beautifully between the pastiched, jazzy pop of fellow ’80s UK breakouts like the Style Council and Everything But the Girl and the growing neo-soul bloc giving an edge to R&B in the late ’90s. Instead, it’s her side profile, eyes looking down and away, that form its impression. The band’s fifth album was the first whose cover didn’t spotlight Adu’s full face. By 2010, though, Adu had famously turned away for the cover of Soldier of Love, Sade’s most recent release, she offered the camera her back.īut that retreat had begun in earnest on Lovers Rock, a decade earlier. And what a face it is for the first half of the band’s nearly 40-year career, the dancing, almond eyes and wide, perpetually rouged mouth of its frontwoman marshaled multi-platinum after multi-platinum album. More light lands on the bodypack hanging at Adu’s hip than on her face itself. The bright, disembodied heads of her bandmates-Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale, and Paul Denman-float behind her, a rich supporting cast. The lead image presents Sade Adu on stage and in silhouette, shot from somewhere below. ![]() Even on Sade’s official website, you have to dig around to properly see the woman herself. ![]()
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