“I wanted it to be more basic and less embellished, with the quiet songs quieter and the harder songs harder,” band leader Sade Adu said at the time. The music on Stronger Than Pride is reduced on all fronts: softer rhythms, lighter melodies, fleeter verses. While Sade doesn’t reinvent itself on Stronger Than Pride, it does unwind. The latter even features some horn blasts-practically an indulgence, given the band’s tendency toward restraint and poise. Sade doesn’t do outright jams, but “Keep Looking” and “Give It Up” come close, locking into grooves and letting the melodies leisurely unfurl. The album is a breezy, unrushed affair, where songs loop back in on themselves, sway in place, and fizzle out. Guitarist and saxophonist Stuart Matthewman recalled it as the first time the band composed songs piecemeal rather than as a collective, an approach perceptible in the looseness of the compositions. Written in Spain and London and then recorded in France and the Bahamas over the course of a year, the album took shape casually. After releasing and touring their first two records in quick succession, the band took a breather for Stronger Than Pride.
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