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Sade Returns with Beauty and Mystery

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Sade, “Soldier of Love". Like a long-ago lover not quite forgotten, Sade has returned to steal our hearts with more beautiful, uncategorizable music.

It's been 10 years since her last album, a fatal hiatus for almost any other artist, but just another hibernation for a woman whose disdain for fame only deepens our fascination. Sade's voice sounds unchanged, a unique emotional instrument that conjures visions of rain-streaked windows and windblown streets. Her topics love, loss, sorrow, strength remain the same. But her music has still moved forward.

The aggressive title track makes a bold statement, its stabbing drums continuing the bass-heavy direction of her 2000 release, “Lover's Rock." Some of the new album's 10 songs are classic, smooth Sade. But there's also a country twanger, a reggae-tinged ode to fathers who are not husbands, even Sade's first uptempo number since 1992's “Kiss of Life."

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