)[4] "Tough Love" is the first single to be taken from the new album, airing for the first time on BBC Radio 1 as "Hottest Record" during the Zane Lowe's show and slated for a UK release on 3 August 2014.

Kid Harpoon, Dave Okumu, Julio Bashmore, Miguel, James Ford, Nineteen85, Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran also worked on the new album.

[13] In her review for Pitchfork, Jill Mapes noted that "rarely does a major-label pop singer sound as tasteful as Ware does, especially while avoiding the sleepy trappings of adult contemporary.

"[18] At PopMatters, Colin Fitzgerald rated Tough Love eight discs out of ten, noting that Ware has "gone the correct route", while highlighting the album's pop and R&B sounds of "Kind of...

[19] NME critic David Renshaw found that Tough Love "excels [...] while collaborations with Dev Hynes and Miguel save the latter half from drifting too far into languid MOR ballad territory.

's Cam Lindsay called Tough Love a "tour de force album, one that nails heartache with sophistication and class,"[22] while Andy Baber from MusicOMH wrote that "for the most part, it is an assured collection of songs that exudes the confidence of an artist at the peak of her powers.

"[23] AllMusic editor Andy Kellman rated the album three stars out of five, claiming that Tough Love has the same "high level of sophistication" as Devotion, but with "less stimulating results.