Lovers in the City is the fourth studio album by Tanita Tikaram, released by East West Records in 1995.

"[1] Upon its release, John Harris of NME praised Lovers in the City as "shockingly decent", with Tikaram "coming out of it looking like someone who's worthy of sharing lunch with Tori, Bjork or Kate Bush".

He commented on how Tikaram had "binned most of the forced intellectualism that made her sound like an eternal undergraduate" and "turned her straining, fractured baritone into something of an asset".

[3] Music Week called it a "brooding, downbeat" album from the "husky songstress" which "lightens up with the introduction of some classical string arrangements".

[4] Sarra Manning of Melody Maker was critical, remarking that Tikaram's music was "plummeting to depths known only to champion potholers" with an album of "funereal dirges" where "the only mild exception is 'Yodelling Song', a determinedly uptempo exercise accompanied by the worst words in the world".