This is yet another album that I overlooked in the 80s, mainly because I didn’t have a cd player or get invited to the sort of dinner parties where this would be played as background music. Listening to this today shows that it really benefits from being heard through good headphones at high quality, rather than on a crackly AM radio - I’ve only just realised that she’s not singing about travelling to ‘Western Maine’ in Smooth Operator.
Sade has a voice that soars effortlessly on this, but she also has an equal writing credit on all of the songs on here, and clearly deserved the huge success that this album enjoyed. I’m not normally a fan of smooth soul/R&B but this is a cut above similar records from around this time.
Dinner-party-tastic!
https://album.link/gb/i/1524651063
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