Stream/download The Rosebuds covering Sade’s ‘Love Deluxe’ album

November 16th, 2012

Raleigh, North Carolina indie pop duo The Rosebuds have put out a few great albums of their own in the last decade – see 2005′s Birds Make Good Neighbors and 2007′s Night of the Furies. But for their latest project, they chose to cover an album they consider to be one the band’s greatest influences: Sade’s classic Love Deluxe. Here’s what the band had to say about it:

Love Deluxe, Sade’s fourth album, was released 20 years ago this week. To say this album is a constant influence to The Rosebuds and the records we’ve made over the years would be an understatement. We’ve always been fans. Ivan’s been covering Sade songs since I’ve known him–he sings them in the house, he sings them while driving, he sings them with or without a guitar in hand, he sings them when he doesn’t even realize he’s singing aloud. It’s the language he hears music in. Ivan spent some time on the North Carolina coast where he set up a small apartment–a surf camp and home studio. He’d gone to the beach to enjoy the off-season isolation, to surf, and to work on some new Rosebuds demos we have. I was delighted when he came back to Brooklyn and presented me with his own fully-tracked version of Love Deluxe. It’s only elements are the instruments Ivan drove down with, and the friends who stopped by to contribute–Rob Lackey, drums; Matt Douglas, Saxophone; Jonathan Yu, keyboards. We set about mixing it right away.

Upon first listen to Ivan’s version of Love Deluxe, I was struck by how organic it is. Where many of the electronic elements of the original had been beautiful to me, to listen to this new live-instrument sound Ivan had quick-captured is to listen directly to his evolving relationship with the music. It’s a documentation of a living connection. Please download and share this tribute recording of a record that means so much to us.

You can download and or stream the album for free from Bandcamp below.

<a href="http://therosebuds.bandcamp.com/album/love-deluxe-the-rosebuds-perform-sade">LOVE DELUXE (The Rosebuds perform Sade) by The Rosebuds</a>

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