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By DENNIS HUNT, New albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor), two stars (fair) and three stars (good) and four stars (excellent).

* * 1/2 Sade, “Love Deluxe,” Epic. Sade’s signature--those super-cool, understated, rather detached vocals--hasn’t changed during her four-year recording hiatus, but some of the mellow, New Age-style material here is a bad imitation of Enya’s ultra-soothing mood music. A few of the tunes, gently underscored by Brazilian rhythms, do make good romantic background music.

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