Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) focusing on subjects such as the Liverpool dockers' strike, self-loathing pop stars and general disillusionment. Preceded in release a week by the single "Life's Too Short", "Tilt" was released by Epic Records in November 1999. A unique billboard campaign was developed to promote the album. The album was a commercial failure, only reaching number 46 on the UK Albums Chart. Its two singles also fared badly in the UK Singles Chart. Broudie was later unsatisfied with the album, and took the band on hiatus in 2000. After the Lightning Seeds had been a solo project for Ian Broudie, the project
Lovers Rock (Sade album) Lovers Rock (Sade album) Lovers Rock is the fifth studio album by English band Sade, released on 13 November 2000 by Epic Records. Following the release of "Love Deluxe" (1992), the band began an eight-year hiatus, during which time some band members began recording with American musician Maxwell and produced his debut album, "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite". Following the group's Love Deluxe World Tour, Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denman and Andrew Hale formed the group Sweetback. During the eight-year hiatus Sade would experience media scrutiny and would later go on to give birth to her first child. "Lovers Rock" was titled