Me and John Witt are Sade fanatics.
I met her in the early eighties when she was still a model and poked fun at my somewhat grubby appearance at a pre-concert Spandau Ballet party.
I fell in love with her then and love her now and Jon Pareles best writing in a year or so in New York Times just makes it better.
Farber’s opinion notwithstanding the album is exactly what you think it is. And what can be bad in that?
Here’s the url, read it, it’s pretty damn ace:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/arts/music/07sade.html?ref=music