The effect is painfully intimate: amidst the stream-of-consciousness guilt and reckoning with the repercussions of an uncoupling, Adele answers her son’s questions about her feelings, then addresses herself while choking back tears. Voices echo like ghosts on “My Little Love,” before the aching humanity of Adele and her son, Angelo, is captured via voice notes that are placed within the song and then comprise its outro. Here is our humble opinion of the best songs on Adele’s 30:Īlthough the opening line of the album, “I’ll be taking flowers to the cemetery of my heart,” nods to the post-divorce project that follows, the lynchpin line is of the sweeping “Strangers By Nature” comes later, with “No one knows what it’s like to be us.” With a grand string arrangement and dreamy production, Adele gives us a window in the intimate problems of a timeless star, and offers a sorrowful melisma once the strings drop away. Adele’s new album was always going to be one of the most notable events in music this year, but a blockbuster release is rarely this emotionally affecting.Īlthough every song on Adele’s new album is worth diving into headfirst, we already have a few favorite. Although risks are taken with her sound - 30 includes some of the most dizzying uptempo songs of Adele’s career - they are bypassed by her commitment to lyrical honesty.
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