Emeli Sande – Long Live The Angels (Deluxe Version) (2016) [7Digital FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Long Live the Angels is the second studio album by Scottish recording artist Emeli Sandé, released on 11 November 2016 by Virgin Records. The lead single from the album, “Hurts”, was released on 16 September 2016. Sandé is scheduled to begin a European tour to support the album, with dates in the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.

The album is influenced by Sandé’s Zambian background. The song “Tenderly” features her father and cousins, credited as The Serenje Choir, named after the town of Serenje in the Serenje District of Zambia.

Emeli Sandé had three U.K. Top Ten hits as a featured artist before she released her 2012 debut album. Our Version of Events, a multi-platinum smash and the source of four additional Top Ten singles, continued the singer and songwriter’s escalation. There was a somewhat similar lead-up to proper album number two. Between releases, she fronted the similarly successful likes of Labrinth’s “Beneath Your Beautiful,” Naughty Boy’s “Lifted,” and David Guetta’s “What I Did for Love.” That Sandé was sought by Rihanna, Alicia Keys, and Leona Lewis, and frequently had her songs performed on televised singing competitions, indicated the regard with which she was held as a writer. Long Live the Angels, her second proper album, is built to maintain her rank. Guest appearances are once again kept to a minimum, placing the spotlight squarely on Sandé’s gracefully open demonstrations of salvation, devotion, pain, and perseverance. (She married her long-term partner in 2012 and divorced shortly thereafter.) Sandé visited her father in Zambia and added his voice, as well as a local children’s choir, to “Tenderly,” a lilting plea for emotional refuge. On the sparse, snaking “Garden,” another cut regarding shelter, Áine Zion provides the intro and outro, while Jay Electronica adds a burning intensity over the album’s lone deep bassline. Apart from those spots and multiple powerful appearances from a gospel choir, it’s all Sandé all the time. Ballads prevail as she deals with the consequences of a broken relationship, lamenting false dreams, yearning for fulfillment, and admitting her inability to simply brush it off. In “I’d Rather Not,” she ultimately rejects the notion of a second chance, comparing the damage to natural catastrophes and bullet wounds. Sandé sings with more precision and force without overselling anything. There’s also more nuance to her approach, as in “Lonely,” where the line “Baby I’m outta here” is sung twice in a row, first with resolve, then with a deep ache. Certain listeners might bemoan the shortage of uptempo belters here, but one attentive and thorough listen presents a clear justification.

Tracklist

01. Selah (2:29)
02. Breathing Underwater (4:23)
03. Happen (3:36)
04. Hurts (3:58)
05. Give Me Something (3:53)
06. Right Now (2:14)
07. Shakes (2:50)
08. Garden (4:02)
09. I’d Rather Not (3:50)
10. Lonely (3:34)
11. Sweet Architect (3:20)
12. Tenderly (3:22)
13. Every Single Little Piece (4:03)
14. Highs & Lows (3:15)
15. Babe (3:15)
16. Kung Fu (3:57)
17. Somebody (2:43)
18. This Much Is True (3:33)

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