About Love Deluxe by Sade Album
Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by English band Sade, released by Epic Records in the United States on October 26, 1992, and in the United Kingdom on November 1, 1992. In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau felt that half of the album cannot qualify with Sade's most memorable songs and particularly panned the lyric about a Somali woman who has a life that "hurts like brand-new shoes" on the song "Pearls". Amy Linden of Entertainment Weekly stated that the album "surges with emotion, but the mostly lush ambient music on Love Deluxe is low on the oomph meter." In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Ron Wynn wrote that it "marked a return to the detached cool jazz backing and even icier vocals that made her debut album a sensation" with an "urbane sound." In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album 247th on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
