{"id":21983,"date":"2024-08-19T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21983"},"modified":"2024-09-30T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T17:22:05","slug":"music-sade-diamond-life-promise-198-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21983","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Sade &#8211; Diamond Life &amp; Promise, 198?\/1985"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7865.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21981\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7865.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7865-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7865-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7865-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/stars_08_four-1-3.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-23639\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/stars_08_four-1-3.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/stars_08_four-1-3-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow! What a blast of nostalgia. And such great music. \u2018There\u2019s a quiet storm\u2019, she sings, in The Sweetest Taboo. Quiet storm, the perfect description of the sultry soulful music she and her group make. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening her second album with Is It A Crime and Taboo? Phew! Hot. And cool. Just utterly brilliant. I\u2019m not massively sold on the \u2018so 80s\u2019 gated snare sound of the drums. But within the overall mix it\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and as a listener to rain sounds when I get off to sleep, the fact Taboo starts and ends with rain is rather apt and lovely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the \u2018album tracks\u2019, as they call them &#8211; i.e. the non hit singles &#8211; are mostly very good, like track three, the jazzy War of The Hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially I was very taken with the whole package. But repeated listens have left me feeling that there is a bit of a dip in quality, as we move from the heavy airplay hits, to the rest of collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence the four stars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! What a blast of nostalgia. And such great music. \u2018There\u2019s a quiet storm\u2019, she sings, in The Sweetest Taboo. Quiet storm, the perfect description of the sultry soulful music she and her group make. Opening her second album with Is It A Crime and Taboo? Phew! Hot. And cool. Just utterly brilliant. I\u2019m not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Sade &#8211; Diamond Life &amp; Promise, 198?\/1985&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-5Iz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23640,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983\/revisions\/23640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}