Achievements and Nigel Williamson Review
Face Up met with less commercial success than Stansfield's previous work due to zero publicity coupled with a four-year gap between the release of this new LP and her previous set. It peaked at Number 38 in Great Britain, spending two weeks on the Top 75 albums chart but made the Top 20 in Switzerland, and the Top 30 in both Germany and Austria. Of the two singles taken from the LP, the first, "Let's Just Call It Love", a contemporary urban-rhythmed modern R&B track, was a minor hit, reaching number 48 in Lisa's home country of the UK on the U.K. Singles Chart. The second single was the disco-sounding anthem entitled "8-3-1".
Despite the lower chart positions and sales figures of her previous work, the album received an enthusiastic review by Nigel Williamson, who actually contributed to the artist's remastered albums project, writing all of the new sleeve notes. Williamson's review included track-by-track analyses and descriptions, where Stansfield and Devaney's songwriting abilities are compared to respected icons in the field, and Stansfield's soulful singing stylings are compared to both classic and contemporary singers.
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