Love Deluxe

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<b>100 Best Albums</b> Sade’s revelatory fourth album, <i>Love Deluxe</i> is an exercise in pure immersion; the air and textures so thick and inky, the mere act of listening to it feels like slowly swimming through a body of water. From the opening bassline of the immortal opening track “No Ordinary Love,” <i>Love Deluxe</i>’s gravitational pull is apparent and immediate, and its nine songs represent rich-sounding music that, in less capable hand, would risk becoming totally overwhelming. But the members of this British quartet, led by the incomparable Sade Adu, is as locked in with precision on <i>Love Deluxe</i> as they were throughout their early years; the resulting album, released in 1992, is a record that radiates with iridescent beauty even when it sounds massive and heavy. The weight that <i>Love Deluxe</i> carries seemingly created a crater around the band itself, as Sade underwent the first of multiple extended hiatuses not long after its release—affording listeners plenty of time to fully meld with the album’s gorgeou, endless-seeming tendrils of sound. .

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