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Track List
01) Daydreamer
02) Best for Last
03) Chasing Pavements
04) Cold Shoulder
05) Crazy for You
06) Melt My Heart to Stone
07) First Love
08) Right as Rain
09) Make You Feel My Love
10) My Same
11) Tired
12) Hometown Glory
01) Daydreamer
02) Best for Last
03) Chasing Pavements
04) Cold Shoulder
05) Crazy for You
06) Melt My Heart to Stone
07) First Love
08) Right as Rain
09) Make You Feel My Love
10) My Same
11) Tired
12) Hometown Glory
3:40
4:18
3:30
3:11
3:28
3:23
3:10
3:17
3:32
3:15
4:18
4:31
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First Released
2008
Soul
In Love
Rock/Pop
In Love
Slow
Album
6,500,000 copies
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Debiut młodziutkiej wokalistki, która podczas pobytu w Wielkiej Brytanii uczęszczała do tej samej szkoły (londyńskiej The Brit School w Selhurst) co Amy Winehouse, Kate Nash i członkowie formacji The Feeling, a w swojej krótkiej karierze zdążyła już wzbudzić sensację występem w prestiżowym programie telewizyjnym "Later With Jools Holland" oraz jako support takich wykonawców, jak Jack Penate, Amos Lee i Devendra Banhart. Matowym, podszytym chrypką głosem w niezwykle dojrzały i przejmujący, a jednocześnie pozbawiony taniego sentymentalizmu czy lukrowatego infantylizmu sposób śpiewa o tym, co to znaczy być zakochaną między 18. a 19. rokiem życia. Tworząc swój repertuar, inspirowała się muzyką Etty James, Peggy Lee, Burta Bacharacha i Jeffa Buckleya, a te cytaty z muzycznej przeszłości tylko bardziej wyciągają na wierzch emocjonalność utworów Adele i podkreślają lekko spatynowane brzmienie zahaczające nieco o retro-pop.
User Album Review
It's easy to get the wrong impression about Adele. She looks like another Kate Nash, all Top Shop dresses and haircuts that only a mother could love. And the fact that she's been a fuss on MySpace for a while only ups the sense of trepidation. Add to that a Later… debut which came filled to the brim with nervous caterwauling, and hopes for her album aren't pitched particularly high.
This is why it's such a shock that it's a genuinely touching, maturely considered and brilliantly sung opus that belies her titular age. Listening to it for the first time is the aural equivalent of walking into one of those oh-so-quirky little bars that you expect to be filled with bland scenesters and discovering that everyone within is friendly and they're serving the finest soul food to fill you up with.
Pitching up somewhere between blues, folk and jazz, she's included something for everyone without ever pandering to a particular trend. Her melodies exude warmth, her singing is occasionally stunning and, in the dramatic Hometown Glory, the spiky cool of Cold Shoulder (which is unexpectedly reminiscent of Shara Nelson-era Massive Attack) and the piano epic Make You Feel My Love, she has tracks that make Lily Allen and Kate Nash sound every bit as ordinary as they are.
That said, there is a note of caution to be sounded. There's a danger of the hyperbole exceeding the actual potential here: The Brit Awards made her their first ever winner of the Critics' Choice award and the BBC's Sound of 2008 list named her as the most promising new music talent in UK, while one magazine compared her songbook with Leonard Cohen's! While she is undoubtedly good, she's not quite worthy of those accolades yet, as her voice lacks a little soul and her songwriting a little depth.
Adele is a fine prospect and a genuine talent, but just like Amy Winehouse, who went to the same performing arts school, her brilliance will truly shine when she's a little further into her career – though hopefully, she'll be better at handling the astronomical fame that awaits her than the crumbling Mrs Fielder-Civil.
19 is a great start, a solid base to build a career on and a wonderful reminder of just how great our home grown talent can be. Just goes to show that the old adage is true – you really can't go judging a pop star by their cover.
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Debiut młodziutkiej wokalistki, która podczas pobytu w Wielkiej Brytanii uczęszczała do tej samej szkoły (londyńskiej The Brit School w Selhurst) co Amy Winehouse, Kate Nash i członkowie formacji The Feeling, a w swojej krótkiej karierze zdążyła już wzbudzić sensację występem w prestiżowym programie telewizyjnym "Later With Jools Holland" oraz jako support takich wykonawców, jak Jack Penate, Amos Lee i Devendra Banhart. Matowym, podszytym chrypką głosem w niezwykle dojrzały i przejmujący, a jednocześnie pozbawiony taniego sentymentalizmu czy lukrowatego infantylizmu sposób śpiewa o tym, co to znaczy być zakochaną między 18. a 19. rokiem życia. Tworząc swój repertuar, inspirowała się muzyką Etty James, Peggy Lee, Burta Bacharacha i Jeffa Buckleya, a te cytaty z muzycznej przeszłości tylko bardziej wyciągają na wierzch emocjonalność utworów Adele i podkreślają lekko spatynowane brzmienie zahaczające nieco o retro-pop.
User Album Review
It's easy to get the wrong impression about Adele. She looks like another Kate Nash, all Top Shop dresses and haircuts that only a mother could love. And the fact that she's been a fuss on MySpace for a while only ups the sense of trepidation. Add to that a Later… debut which came filled to the brim with nervous caterwauling, and hopes for her album aren't pitched particularly high.
This is why it's such a shock that it's a genuinely touching, maturely considered and brilliantly sung opus that belies her titular age. Listening to it for the first time is the aural equivalent of walking into one of those oh-so-quirky little bars that you expect to be filled with bland scenesters and discovering that everyone within is friendly and they're serving the finest soul food to fill you up with.
Pitching up somewhere between blues, folk and jazz, she's included something for everyone without ever pandering to a particular trend. Her melodies exude warmth, her singing is occasionally stunning and, in the dramatic Hometown Glory, the spiky cool of Cold Shoulder (which is unexpectedly reminiscent of Shara Nelson-era Massive Attack) and the piano epic Make You Feel My Love, she has tracks that make Lily Allen and Kate Nash sound every bit as ordinary as they are.
That said, there is a note of caution to be sounded. There's a danger of the hyperbole exceeding the actual potential here: The Brit Awards made her their first ever winner of the Critics' Choice award and the BBC's Sound of 2008 list named her as the most promising new music talent in UK, while one magazine compared her songbook with Leonard Cohen's! While she is undoubtedly good, she's not quite worthy of those accolades yet, as her voice lacks a little soul and her songwriting a little depth.
Adele is a fine prospect and a genuine talent, but just like Amy Winehouse, who went to the same performing arts school, her brilliance will truly shine when she's a little further into her career – though hopefully, she'll be better at handling the astronomical fame that awaits her than the crumbling Mrs Fielder-Civil.
19 is a great start, a solid base to build a career on and a wonderful reminder of just how great our home grown talent can be. Just goes to show that the old adage is true – you really can't go judging a pop star by their cover.
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