| Soldier Of Love |  | Artist: Sade
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 763933
UPC: 886976393328
EAN: 0886976393328
ASIN: B002YIHO7I
Release Date: February 9, 2010 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | The Moon and The Sky | | • | Solider of Love | | • | Morning Bird | | • | Babyfather | | • | Long Hard Road | | • | Be That Easy | | • | Bring Me Home | | • | In Another Time | | • | Skin | | • | The Safest Place |
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Be Sure to Enlist! March 8, 2010
LP Quagmire (Canada)
While hardly a departure from previous efforts, SOLDIER OF LOVE is a winner. The enticing title track seems tailor-made for a 007 film, so hopefully the Bond people are listening...
 SADE deploys her SEDUCTIVE Soldier of Love February 20, 2010
Frederic White (Montreal, QC.)
Music fans claiming the music industry produce and release only highly disposable merchandise have yet to hear this product.
Sade returns to the forefront with a crafty collection of songs that are musically impeccable.
The vocal style of their lead vocalist, Sade Adu, is once again seductively relaxed.
The musical ambiance on this release is a classic SADE ( a combination of mature pop with a hint of soul jazz).
The track listing has been perfectly selected by the producers to capitalize upon the creative atmospheric nature of this band and artist.
Not one track on SOLDIER OF LOVE is filler material.
It is highly doubtful that current radio formats in North America will embrace the bulk of the material with the same acceptance as they once did during the 1980s, however, that does not diminish its artistic validity or question its quality and worth of being purchased.
It is most probable this CD will go on to rapidly acquire a strong life of its own without having much support from Top 40 radio. SOLDIER OF LOVE will most likely remain atop several music critics year end list as one of the "must-have " musical releases for 2010.
The entire CD is a seductive musical masterpiece.
BEST TRACKS:
The Entire CD.
Immaculately produced, mellow, sonic balm for your soul. February 15, 2010
Adarsh Amin
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
After almost a decade of absence - 25 years into her career - the elegant soul /jazz siren is back with "Soldier Of Love".
The new album sees Sade reunited with the same musicians (Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denman and Andrew Hale) who performed on her 1984 debut "Diamond Life (W/Orig Art)", which became the classic yuppie dinner party soundtrack. It catapulted her to the forefront of the 1980s soul jazz scene and spawned the singles "Smooth Operator" and "Your Love is King".
But despite the success of "Diamond Life" and her follow-up albums - selling a total of 50m records worldwide - Sade has shunned the limelight and has lived in "self-exile", including stints in Spain and Jamaica.
Now 50, she remains one of the most iconic female vocalists alive - partly because of the stylish image she fostered in the fashion-conscious Eighties.
The title song is the least Sade-like track here - with its metallic, shiny, marching band-style drum beats not far from trip hop/Tricky territory, it's the toughest-sounding thing she's ever done, though the lyric posits the idea of the relationship as battleground.
The track is a bit of a revelation - a rich, atmospheric pop symphony with, as the title suggests, a military theme. What's impressive is how fully-realised that theme is, from the marching band percussion to the cadence call-style hooks, the guitar riffs that ape the sound of gunfire to Sade crooning lines like "I've lost the use of my heart".
The remaining nine tracks can't quite match it for shock value.
They glide by elegantly, registering subtle variations.
My highligts: "Baby Father", a gentle reggae-tinged confection apparently extolling the constancy of paternal love. It's in marked contrast to the wounded bittersweetness and the overall melancholy of the remainder of the tracklist: the feel-good beat will have you shaking your booty.
It all gets a little too cosy on "In Another Time", a waltz-time slog where a saxophone and string quartet provide an orchestral extravaganza. Pure magic.
"Be That Easy": Sade's soaring hypnotic voice leaves listeners in a zombie-like trance.
As usual, the album is immaculately produced, and Sade oozes class and sophistication, although seemingly offering variations on a single theme. Recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World studio, this album illustrates the dilemma of the long-term artist: whether to alienate fans with a radical departure or risk the charge of repetition.
All in all, it's a pleasant and sonic balm, which will make her fans immensely happy, even if there's nothing quite unexpected, idiosyncratic, adventurous, rare, powerful and intelligently written as the title track would imply and suggest.
Enjoy!
The album debuts at # 1 of the Billboard Top 200 Albums and at # 1 of the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at # 1 of the Billboard Top Canadian Albums.
Issue date: February 27, 2010
LIQUID VELVET February 10, 2010
NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Christmas break of 1998, second floor living-room of a New Jersey Victorian house, visiting friends; the snow started falling at dusk and now it was well underway, the generous flakes absorbing any sound in the atmosphere. The fireplace radiates a soft glow and the sweet scent of burning pine wood. Tucked in the couch, I am reading a good spy novel. And on the Stereo, Sade's Love Deluxe is playing over and over, making the evening unforgettable, etching every detail to my memory.
Since then the deep, magic voice of SADE provided the soundtrack of many evenings of my life. However, LOVE DELUXE remained unsurpassed. SOLDIER OF LOVE though came as close as none other album.
SOLDIER OF LOVE is a masterpiece. Every single song is wonderful and yet LONG HARD ROAD and IN ANOTHER TIME are the ones I feel longing for. Both of these songs remind of Sade's signature sounds. The rest of the album though takes well studied steps, dancing around her previous works.
Fans will find this album comfortable like an old favorite sweater and fresh like untouched morning snow. If you do not know Sade, this is one of her albums that you must have.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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