10 Years Later…
After much mystery and hype, the legendary Sade has/have (I am not good with the grammer here considering Sade is her name and her bands name, which truly angers me when I write about her) finally released a new album, their 1st in a decade. To the shock of no one, the music is a typical Sade affair, same musicians and Mike Pela on the production boards. It is something to be thankful for, I don’t think the world could handle Sade working with Timbaland and having Moto Blanco remix the single. The album is named after its lead single, “Solider of Love,” which leaves much to be desired musically, but astehtically sets the tone for a very dark album. My favoruite track on the album is the opener, “The Moon and the Sky.” It is very Sade, in that it is beautiful, sedated, baby-making music, but also, bizzarlly enough, a perfect soundtrack for the end of the world. With the album’s artwork contating Myan runins and lyrics about heartbreak and death, Sade makes 2012 seem as though it can’t come soon enough.
