Soldier of Love

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Epic

Category: Pop/Rock

Style: French Rock,Glam Rock,International Pop,Emo,Electro-Industrial,Early British Pop/Rock,British Punk,American Punk,Detroit Rock,Neo-Glam,Hong Kong Pop,Teen Pop,Jam Bands,Progressive Metal,Comedy Rock,Rap-Metal,Sadcore,Latin Rock,Oi!,Rap-Rock,Psychobilly,Ska-Punk,Cowpunk,Chamber Pop,Hot Rod,Neo-Prog,Alternative/Indie Rock,Soft Rock,Folk-Rock,Stoner Metal,Doom Metal,Psychedelic Pop,Hard Rock,Baroque Pop,Indie Rock,Indie Pop,J-Pop,Canterbury Scene,Twee Pop,C-86,Indie Electronic,Goth Metal,Power Metal,College Rock,Bar Band,Neo-Classical Metal,Retro-Rock,British Folk-Rock,Dance-Pop,New Wave of British Heavy Metal,Post-Grunge,Third Wave Ska Revival,Mod,Space Rock,Speed Metal,Proto-Punk,Queercore,Garage Punk,Early Pop/Rock,L.A. Punk,Hair Metal,Roots Rock,Psychedelic,Shibuya-Kei,Swedish Pop/Rock,Instrumental Rock,Hardcore Punk,British Trad Rock,Garage Rock Revival,Madchester,French Pop,Frat Rock,Neo-Psychedelia,Cocktail,Punk-Pop,Rockabilly,Sports Anthems,American Trad Rock,Heartland Rock,Heavy Metal,Pop-Metal,Brill Building Pop,Euro-Rock,Post-Punk,New Wave/Post-Punk Revival,Emo-Pop,Power Pop,New York Punk,Straight-Edge,Sophisti-Pop,Anarchist Punk,Obscuro,Industrial,Grindcore,Merseybeat,Alternative Pop/Rock,Avant-Prog,Punk Metal,Alternative Singer/Songwriter,Aussie Rock,Slowcore,Urban Folk,Blues-Rock,Freakbeat,British Invasion,Experimental Rock,Country-Rock,New Zealand Rock,AM Pop,Scandinavian Metal,Skiffle,Ambient Pop,New Wave,Prog-Rock,Arena Rock,Pub Rock,Mod Revival,Lo-Fi,Shoegaze,Britpop,No Wave,British Metal,Southern Rock,Punk/New Wave,Symphonic Black Metal,Synth Pop,Rock & Roll,Surf,Glitter,Jazz-Rock,Tex-Mex,Noise Pop,British Psychedelia,Retro Swing,American Underground,Post-Hardcore,Grunge,New Romantic,Jangle Pop,Alternative Metal,Dream Pop,Bubblegum,Teen Idols,Alternative Dance,Math Rock,Japanese Rock,Boogie Rock,Noise-Rock,Rockabilly Revival,Surf Revival,Acid Rock,Funk Metal,Alternative Country-Rock,Kraut Rock,Contemporary Pop/Rock,Paisley Underground,Post-Rock,Punk Revival,Country Soul,Riot Grrrl,British Blues,Industrial Metal,Euro-Dance,Club/Dance,Hot Rod Revival,Girl Groups,Ska Revival,Goth Rock,Aboriginal Rock,Sunshine Pop,Singer/Songwriter,Punk,Folk-Pop,Guitar Virtuoso,Swamp Pop,Adult Alternative Pop/Rock,Death Metal,Skatepunk,Album Rock,Euro-Pop,Garage Rock

Soldier of Love

UPC: 886976393328

Release Date: 02/09/2010

Original Release Date: 02/09/2010

Number of Discs: 1

Andy Kellman

Sade?s longest absence yet did not prevent their return from being an event. It at least seemed eventful whenever ?Soldier of Love,? released to radio a couple months prior to the album of the same title, was heard over the airwaves. Even with its brilliantly placed lyrical allusions to hip-hop past and present and its mature sound, the single stuck out on stations aimed at teens and twentysomethings, as well as points on the dial that court an older audience. It was the most musical and organic, while also the most dramatic yet least bombastic, song in rotation. Crisp snare rolls, cold guitar stabs, and at least a dozen other elements were deployed with tremendous economy, suspensefully ricocheting off one another as Sade Adu rewrote ?Love Is a Battlefield? with scarred, assured defiance. While the song was an indication of its parent album?s reliance upon organic instrumentation -- the band?s use of synthesized textures and programming is greatly diminished -- it merely hinted at the dark, even fatalist, depth of heartache conveyed throughout the set. On ?Bring Me Home,? Adu is content in resignation (?Send me to slaughter/Lay me on the railway line?), while on ?The Moon and the Sky,? she projects a bruised and angered bewilderment (?You lay me down and left me for the lions?). The focus at least switches temporarily to a loved one on ?In Another Time,? in what resembles a love letter to (what is likely) a young daughter mistreated by members of both sexes (?Their whispers are hailstones in your face?; ?Soon they?ll mean nothing to you?). The bleakness is tempered with themes of survival and recovery, and a song that is truly sweet (?Babyfather"). Relatable most to those who are experiencing solitude created by romantic desertion, this is not your mother's Sade album. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi