Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by English band Sade, released by Epic Records in the United States on October 26, 1992, and in the United Kingdom on November 1, 1992. In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau felt that half of the album cannot qualify with Sade's most memorable songs and particularly panned the lyric about a Somali woman who has a life that "hurts like brand-new shoes" on the song "Pearls". Amy Linden of Entertainment Weekly stated that the album "surges with emotion, but the mostly lush ambient music on Love Deluxe Read more on Last.fm.