New Reviews: Sade, Hot Chip, Yeasayer and More
Author: Rolling Stone // Category: Latest Music News
The mysterious Sade returns after a 10-year hiatus with Soldier of Love, Sade Adu and her band’s first album since 2000’s Lovers Rock and only their second album in 18 years. Despite the lengthy break, Sade pick up where they left off on their latest album, delivering another set of sultry and beautiful R&B songs. On the amazing title track, “Sade’s voice, as slinky and smoky as ever, has that instantly recognizable ache,” Rob Sheffield writes in his three-and-a-half star review. “Beloved by all, yet known to nobody, Sade just lets her mystique grow. Now that’s a smooth operator.”
British electro-pop band Hot Chip release their fourth album One Life Stand this week. As we’ve come to expect, the band delivers another pack of infectious synthed-out melodies counterweighted by the clever lyricism of frontman Alexis Taylor. “They’re old-school suckers for love, and they always give their heart-hopeful anthems just the right undercurrent of ache,” Jon Dolan writes in his three-and-a-half star review of One Life Stand.
Sticking with synths, Breaking band Yeasayer’s second album Odd Blood earned a four-star rating from Rolling Stone, with Will Hermes saying of the Brooklyn band’s second disc, “On their follow-up, they dive deeper into electronics and big Eighties beats (literally: They hired Peter Gabriel’s old drummer). The result is simultaneously stranger and poppier, more celebratory and more serious.”
For more new reviews, including RS‘ take on Gil Scott-Heron’s I’m New Here, the Soft Pack and Nneka’s Concrete Jungle, check out our Album Reviews section.
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