Sade hasn't released a song in six years — the last we heard from the band was in 2018, when they shared "Flower of the Universe" and "The Big Unknown" for A Wrinkle in Time and Widows, respectively.
That's gonna change this autumn with "Young Lion," a new song dedicated to Sade's transgender son Isaak that appears on non-profit Red Hot's new compilation TRAИƧA, "spotlighting the gifts of many of the most daring, imaginative trans and non-binary artists working today."
The initial production of TRAИƧA began in 2021, and it now spans 46 songs broken into eight chapters. In addition to Sade's new song, it also features Allison Russell covering Jackie Shane, a 30-minute piece from André 3000, music from Moses Sumney, Adrianne Lenker, Grouper, Kelela and L'Rain, spoken word from Hunter Schafer, collaborations between Teddy Geiger and Yaeji, plus Sam Smith and Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and tons more.
"We hoped to create a narrative that positions trans and non-binary people as leaders in our society insofar as the deep inner work they do to affirm who they are in our current climate," TRAИƧA co-producer Dust Reid said in a press release.
The compilation's lead single, a cover of Prince's "I Would Die 4 U" by Lauren Auder and Wendy & Lisa, is out now. Listen to it below and check out the full TRAИƧA tracklist.
TRAИƧA:
1. Midnight Moon Pool - Mary Lattimore, Laraaji, MIZU and Jamal Shakeri
2. You Don't Know Me - Devendra Banhart, Blake Mills and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
3. How Sweet I Roamed - Jeff Tweedy, claire rousay
4. Same Train - Heart Shaped and Christian Lee Hutson
5. STAR - Ana Roxanne and Nsámbu Za Suékama
6. Please Tell Me - Lightning Bug
7. Make 'em Laugh - Benét, Faye Webster
8 Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying - Julien Baker and Calvin Lauber feat. SOAK and Quinn Christopherson
9. Rumblin' - Soft Rōnin feat. Frankie Cosmos
10. Deeper Understanding - Hand Habits feat. Bill Callahan
11. Under the Shadow of Another Moon - Hunter Schafer and Cole Pulice
12. Blush - Grouper and Lucy Liyou
13. Is It Cold In the Water? - Moses Sumney
14. Know Who You Are at Every Age - Anajah and Gary Gunn
15. Is It Over Now? - Niecy Blues feat. Joy Guidry)
16. Something Is Happening And I May Not Fully Understand But I'm Happy to Stand for the Understanding - André 3000
17. Come Back Different - Nina Keith feat. Julie Byrne and Taryn Blake Miller
18. Song to the Siren - Rachika Nayar feat. Julianna Barwick and Cassandra Croft
19. Love Hymn - Arthur Baker feat. Pharoah Sanders
20. People Are Small / Rapture - L'Rain feat. Voices from the NYC Trans Oral History Project
21. We've Been Through So Much - Jlin and Moor Mother
22 My Name - Kara Jackson, Ahya Simone and Dave Longstreth
23. Point of Disgust - Perfume Genius and Low's Alan Sparhawk
24. In Another Life - Lomelda and More Eaze
25. Pink Ponies - Teddy Geiger and Yaeji
26. A Survivor's Guilt - Yaya Bey
27. Just Last Night - Helado Negro and Eileen Myles
28. Feel So Different - Ezra Furman and Sharon Van Etten
29. Mourning Dove - Gia Margaret
30. Feel Better - Adrianne Lenker
31. Any Other Way - Allison Russell and Ahya Simone
32. Down Where The Valleys Are Low - Asher White, Eli Winter and Caroline Rose
33. TM - Fleet Foxes, Cole Pulice and Lynn Avery
34. Querube - AV María, SKY and Belina Rose
35. Within Without - Green-House and Kelela
36. Aaron - Cassandra Jenkins, Bloomsday and Babehoven
37. Young Lion - Sade Adu
38. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Moses Sumney, Lyra Pramuk and Sam Smith
39. Many Ways - CLARITY feat. Clairo
40. I Feel Free - Sparkle Division feat. Pepper MaShay
41. Get Free - Nico Georis, KB Brookins
42. Wolf Like Me - Bartees Strange, Anjimile, Kara Jackson
43. Surrender Your Gender - Laura Jane Grace feat. Lee Ranaldo, Jayne County, Kathi Wilcox, Jay Dee Daugherty and Am Taylor
44. I Would Die 4 U - Lauren Auder and Wendy & Lisa of the Revolution
45. Always - Time Wharp, Elizabeth and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
46. Ever New - Sam Smith and Beverly Glenn-Copeland