During this time, the other members of the band- Stuart Matthewman, Paul S. Following the release of Love Deluxe, the band took an eight-year hiatus, during which Adu came under media scrutiny with rumours of depression and addiction, and later went on to give birth to her first child.
The album was also commercially successful elsewhere, reaching number one in France and the top 10 in the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It was later certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of four million copies. The album peaked at number three on the US Billboard 200 and has sold 3.4 million copies in the United States. The band's fourth studio album, Love Deluxe, was released on 26 October 1992. Following the release of Love Deluxe (1992), the band began an eight-year hiatus, during which Adu would experience media scrutiny and give birth to her first child. The album spawned two singles-" By Your Side" and " King of Sorrow"-and was further promoted by the band's Lovers Rock Tour. It has since been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having sold 3.9 million copies in the United States by February 2010. Commercially, the album reached number 18 on the UK Albums Chart and number three on the US Billboard 200.
The album earned Sade the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2002. Upon release, Lovers Rock was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised the band's musical direction. A concept album, the lyrics focus on both the positive and the negative sides of love the album's lyrical content also touches upon political themes. The album's production has been characterised as spare, with simple arrangements and reggae flourishes. Lovers Rock was seen as a departure from the band's previous use of jazz elements, opting instead for a wider use of musical elements from soul music, R&B, soft rock, folk music, dub, reggae, neo soul and lovers rock. The album was titled after a style of reggae music known as lovers rock, noted for its romantic sound and content, which frontwoman Sade Adu listened to in her youth. 2 compilation released in 2002.Lovers Rock is the fifth studio album by English band Sade, released on 13 November 2000 by Epic Records. Watt's disappointment was eventually tempered, however, when he was able to include the track on the Lazy Dog, Vol. underground dance charts, and later became a dancefloor smash in the U.S., the Sade camp decided not to officially release Watt's masterful version of the song. Although a white-label version of the single quickly scaled the U.K. With keen dynamics, and some new, pliable instrumentation, the song is seamlessly recast into a boundless groove. Unlike scores of standard remix efforts, Watt's ability to use only a handful of the song's original elements without boring listeners over an extended time (eight minutes plus) is the principal strength of his adaptation.
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Beginning with a driving beat, sampled applause, and a vocal loop that slowly EQs its way to the foreground, the mix finally bursts into full bloom two minutes later. What Watt achieved with the track is no less than extraordinary, re-fashioning the lilting ballad into a 132 bpm deep house workout tinged with Latin flavors and additional tasty bits of bass and keyboard work from Watt himself. Through his friend and Sade keyboardist Andrew Hale, he secured a commission to remix the song and access Sade's vocal tracks. Showing no loss of affection for his days as a member of London's smooth, nouveau jazz clique in early '80s, Everything but the Girl's Ben Watt could not resist the opportunity to remix Sade's comeback single, "By Your Side." Watt's reputation as a London DJ (he is half of the Lazy Dog duo along with fellow DJ Jay Hannan) and dance producer began to eclipse his work with Everything but the Girl while wife/singer Tracey Thorn took a hiatus to raise their children.