Sade – I Would Have Never Guessed

“I Would Have Never Guessed” is another of the excellent unreleased tracks that will be included on Sade’s upcoming Ultimate Collection package. “I Would Have Never Guessed” is also a really really good torch ballad. The song is sort of in the same lane as Sia’s “Breathe Me” or DHT’s version of “Listen to Your Heart” except performed by someone with the chops to carry such a spare/vocal intensive sort of song. Sade’s performance is quiet, soothing, all that sort of stuff but it’s also powerful; she’s singing from a real place, a very precise point of emotion. Win to Adu.

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Rating: 8.2

Reviewed by b3