“In 1996, the UK musician and journalist David Toop released a compilation called Sugar & Poison: Tru-Life Soul Ballads for Sentients, Cynics, Sex Machines & Sybarites. The collection was part of Virgin's Ambient series, and he said it came about because “I was sick and tired of the way soul ballads had been dismissed as romantic escapist drivel over the years... and then ended up being packaged by”
