Sade – This Far Vinyl

This boxset features remastered versions of all of Sade’s studio albums to date on pure 180-gram black vinyl C the first complete collection of their studio work up to the present day. All six of the band’s acclaimed albums: Diamond Life 1984 Promise 1985 Stronger Than Pride 1988 Love Deluxe 1992 Lovers Rock 2000 and Solder Of Love 2010 are packaged into the beautifully finished white case-bound box. Revisiting the audio the band and Miles Showell worked from high resolution digital transfers of the stereo master mixes from the original studio recordings remastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios. The elaborate half-speed mastering process has produced exceptionally clean and detailed audio whilst remaining faithful to the band’s intended sound. No additional digital limiting was used in the mastering process so the six albums benefit from the advantage of extra clarity and pure fidelity preserving the dynamic range of the original mixes for the very first time. The six album sleeves have been meticulously reproduced in exact detail with authentic paper and printing methods perfectly replicated for the first time since their original release. Over an exceptional career spanning more than three decades Sade’s six albums have amassed over 60 million worldwide sales and have been certified platinum 24 times over. Producing singles such as ‘Your Love Is King’ ‘Smooth Operator’ and ‘By Your Side’ Sade have gone on to achieve Number 1 albums across the world collected several Grammys MTV Video Music Awards and a BRIT Award along the way quietly taking their “place in the pantheon of cultural influenceNew York Times October 2017. Their most recent studio album Soldier Of Love charted at number one in 15 countries including the US upon release in 2010.