Love Deluxe

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This article is about the Sade album. For the British group, see Love De-Luxe.
Love Deluxe
File:Sade - Love Deluxe.png
Studio album by Sade
Released 26 October 1992 (1992-10-26) United States
1 November 1992 (1992-11-01) United Kingdom
Recorded 1992
Studio Studio Condulmer
(Venice)
Ridge Farm
(Surrey, England)
The Hit Factory
(New York City)
Image Recording
(Los Angeles)
Genre
Length 45:07
Label Epic
Producer
Sade chronology
Stronger Than Pride
(1988)Stronger Than Pride1988		 Love Deluxe
(1992)		 The Best of Sade
(1994)The Best of Sade1994
Singles from Love Deluxe
  1. "No Ordinary Love"
    Released: 8 October 1992
  2. "Feel No Pain"
    Released: 28 November 1992
  3. "Kiss of Life"
    Released: 12 April 1993
  4. "Cherish the Day"
    Released: 31 July 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars[2]
Entertainment Weekly B[1]
NME 7/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 3/5 stars[4]
The Village Voice B−[5]

Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by English band Sade. It was released in the United States on 26 October 1992 and in the United Kingdom on 1 November 1992 by Epic Records.

Commercial performance

The album peaked at number three on the US Billboard 200[6] and has sold 3.4 million copies in the United States.[7] The album was later certified four times platinum by the RIAA for shipments of four million copies.[8] The album was also commercially successful else where reaching number one in France,[9] and reaching the top ten in New Zealand,[10] Sweden,[11] Switzerland[12] and the UK.[13] The album went on to be certified Gold in the United Kingdom.

Critical reception

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 Somalian woman who "hurts like brand-new shoes" on the song "Pearls".[5] 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."[1] 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."[2]

Aftermath

Following the release of Love Deluxe the band would embark on a seven-year hiatus, during this time she came under media scrutiny with rumors of depression and addiction and later went on to give birth to her first child.[14] During this time the other members of the band Matthewman, Denman, and Hale went on to other projects, including the low-key Sweetback, which released a self-titled album in 1996. Matthewman also played a major role in the development of Maxwell's career, providing instrumentation and production work for the R&B singer's first two albums.[15]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "No Ordinary Love"  
7:20
2. "Feel No Pain"  
  • Adu
  • Andrew Hale
  • Matthewman
 5:08
3. "I Couldn't Love You More"  
3:49
4. "Like a Tattoo"  
  • Adu
  • Hale
  • Matthewman
 3:38
5. "Kiss of Life"  
  • Adu
  • Matthewman
  • Hale
  • Denman
 5:50
6. "Cherish the Day"  
  • Adu
  • Hale
  • Matthewman
 5:34
7. "Pearls"  
  • Adu
  • Hale
 4:34
8. "Bullet Proof Soul"  
  • Adu
  • Matthewman
  • Hale
 5:26
9. "Mermaid"  
  • Hale
  • Adu
  • Matthewman
  • Denman
 4:23

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Love Deluxe.[16]

Sade
Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[34] Platinum 70,000
Canada (Music Canada)[35] Platinum 100,000
France (SNEP)[36] Platinum 578,500[36]
Germany (BVMI)[37] Gold 250,000
Netherlands (NVPI)[38] Gold 50,000
Sweden (GLF)[39] Gold 50,000
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[40] Gold 25,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[41] Gold 100,000
United States (RIAA)[42] 4× Platinum 4,000,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

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