Sade - DIAMOND LIFE - LP

Sade - DIAMOND LIFE - LP2024 Repress. When Sade released Diamond Life in their native U. K., they were already a kind of sensation. The band had scored hits with their first singles, the smoldering Top Ten ballad "Your Love Is King" and the perseverant soul anthem "When Am I Going to Make a Living," both of which only faintly resembled anything else on the chart. Magazines such as The Face and Smash Hits had published cover features, intensifying anticipation for the album.

this is simply music created in a very different way

its architecture in sound: pulsating synths

Mid-Century modern phonograph

" mix of the song on one side with a blank flip side

Shiny black with only a couple stray hairlines on each side that can’t be felt and should not affect play

Production of the record was handled by NIN frontman Trent Reznor and English producer Flood

after an indefinite hiatus

R-rated punchlines and a back-and-forth that brings the interplay of the shell-toe Adidas era screaming into our contemporary nightmare

delivers his lyrics with a weary nonchalance that belies his age on songs like the title track

Reggaeton's global superstar J Balvin brings us

the artists continued to collaborate in the vocal booth

Electric on the Eel: August 10th