European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Takes gloomy turn on new album by David Bauder the associated press forget shiny Happy people. . S new album Marks a somber change in direction for this grammy award winning Rock band. Fresh from the commercial Success of the album out of time . Has challenged fans with one of its quietest and least Catchy pieces of work. Bassist Mike Mills said depressing fans was t the game plan for automatic for the people the recently released album. We wrote about 30 songs but when we picked out the Best ones. We found that we had kind of a slow to mid Tempo record he said. And that s of. You make the Best record you can. If it happens to be a Little slower than you intended then that s the Way it  its first single drive features members of the Atlanta symphony and has a sound reminiscent of Queen Ryche s silent lucidity. Songs like everybody hurts and the sidewinder sleeps tonight keep the Pace slow and the mood melancholy. Man in the Moon is about the late comic Andy Kaufman. Only ignore and the quartet s election eve indictment of 12 years of Republican Rule that features Michael Stipe s distorted vocals and Peter Buck s driving guitar is a True Rocker. I Don t mind the idea of challenging fair weather fans Mills said. It will be members of . Pose with the three awards they won at the grammy this year. Interesting to see who Clicks on to this record because i do think it is less accessible than out of time. We could have gone in there and written out of time part 2, but what s the Point he said. We re in this to see what we re capable of at this Point. We want to see How Good we can be doing different  . Did not embark on a concert tour after out of time which sold some 4 million copies and they will disappoint fans again. Mills said the band has decided against touring until after recording still another album which Means 1994 at the earliest. When we go out behind the next one Well have three albums Worth of material that s never been played much in Public. The Green tour will be out of everyone s with quiet empathy Sade creates Small gems by Stephen Holden . Times news service refined understatement is so rare in mainstream pop music that it is easily mistaken for blandness. That s one reason Why Sade the English pop soul Singer and songwriter is often dismissed As a Cool Remote Symbol of Jet set ennui. The 33-year-old Singer exudes a Calm self containment that contrasts sharply with the supposedly More authentic gospel and Rock driven exuberance of soul singers like aretha Franklin and Tina Turner. But while Sade possesses a soul Singer s rhythmic intuitiveness she has always favored reflection Over aggression and pastel shades Over bold musical colors. And her Smoky vibrato less voice with its echoes of Astrid Gilberto Julie London and the Young Nina Simone evokes the High gloss nightclub ambiance of a pre Sou music Era. Sade s recently released love deluxe contains nothing that is Likely to change the casual listener s impressions of her musical personality. But those who immerse themselves in the album her first in four years should discover a depth and passion that have always existed just below the surface along with an expanded social consciousness. In a pop climate obsessed with changing sounds and the language of the Street Sade has shown herself to be a pop classicist More interested in creating a durable body of work than in keeping up. On love deluxe Sade shows that intimacy can be applied to social concerns As Well As personal reflections. Pearls the album s most remarkable song contemplates a tragedy so horrific that it is almost impossible for a pop song to address it without seeming trite and smug. There is a woman in Somalia scraping for pearls on the Roadside she begins. There s a Force stronger than nature keeps her will  with a quiet prayerful empathy Sade imagines the struggle of someone who is reduced to feeding her children by scavenging for kernels of Grain that fall from the Back of a Relief truck. It is not the Only song on love deluxe to address a social ill. In a completely different Groove feel no pain a Catchy Funk song examines unemployment among Blacks asks for help and predicts tragedy if none arrives. But like Sade s three earlier albums love deluxe focuses primarily on relationships. Mind by then he said of the band s 1989 tour. . S dilemma is a common one for bands that toured clubs relentlessly Early in their career to build up an audience. They succeeded to a Point where they Are now too big to play anything but Arenas without turning a lot of people away. And they Don t particularly like performing in the big Halls. There is no perfect Way to tour at this Point Well work it out Mills promised. Oddly band members now in their Early 30s, satisfied their wanderlust with the making of automatic for the people. They recorded in Woodstock ., Miami new Orleans Athens and Seattle. The Southwest was the Only Corner of the country . Did t get to and they will probably make a video there. Mills who said he appreciated the Chance to act like a fan at last february s grammy awards ceremony in new York City said he s still having fun but in a different sort of  when you re Young and starting out there is a sense of innocence and a sense of wonderment that anything can happen. This thing you re doing can go in any direction he said. As you get older the fun is not the innocent naive fun that you had before. The fun is in meeting  Sade addresses social concerns on her new album love deluxe. Chart pop singles 1. End of the Road Boyz ii men 2. Sometimes love just Ain t enough Patty Smyth 3. I d die without you from Boomerang . Dawn4. How do you talk to an Angel the 5. Erotica Madonna 6. Jump around House of pain 7. She s playing hard to get i five 8. Free your mind in Vogue 9. Rhythm is a dancer snap 10. People everyday arrested development top albums 1. The Chase Garth Brooks 2. Automatic for the people . 3. Unplugged Eric Clapton 4. Some gave All Billy Ray Cyrus 5. Androgynous Prince and the . Paisley Park 6. Timeless the classics Michael Botton 7. Ten Peart Jam 8. Us Peter gabriel9. What s the 411 ? Mary j. Bilge 10. Dirt Alice in chains country singles 1. No one else on Earth Wynonna 2. Seminole wind John Anderson 3. The greatest Man i never knew Reba Mcentyre 4. If i did t have you Randy Travis 5. Cafe on the Corner Sawyer Brown 6. Letting go Suzy Bogguss 7. Lord have mercy on the working Man Travis Trutt 8. Watch me Lorrie Morgan 9. Shake the sugar tree  tiits 10. Bubba shot the Juke Box Mark Chestnutt re singles 1. Right now Aib. Sure 2. People everyday arrested development 3. Sweet november troop 4. Ain t nobody like you Mlkle Howard 5. Games Chull Booker 6. What about your friends tic 7. Real love Lorenzo 8. Someone to hold Trey Lorenz 9. Work to do Vanessa Williams 10.1qotathanq4 Yalo key classical albums 1. Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall Kathleen Battle 2. Baroque duet Kathleen Battle Wynton Marsallo 3. In concert car eras Domingo.  4. Goreck symphony no. 3 Upshaw London Sinf Bofetta 5. From the official Barcelona games ceremony Domingo. Can eras. Caballe 6. Pieces of Africa Kronos quartet 7. Bernstein the final concert Boston symphony 8. Shostakovich 24 preludes & fugues Keith Jarrett 9. Amore Luciano Pavarotti 10. Switched on Bach 2000 Wendy Carlos compiled by billboard october 29, 1992 stripes Magazine 13