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10.0
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The Irish Times
Watch out here for the majestic closing track, Someone Like You – a torch song exquisitely delivered. Brilliant
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10.0
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Daily Telegraph
Whether she can sell American country sounds to a British audience remains to be seen, but avoiding the dancefloor pyrotechnics that so many singers are drawn to at the moment is a wise move — on this album she out-divas them all
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10.0
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The Scotsman
Every tune here is a bona fide hit
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9.1
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A.V. Club
21 sounds mainstream, but never too slick or overloaded
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9.0
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musicOMH
One of the great 'break-up' albums, and the first truly impressive record of 2011
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9.0
20603
9.0 |
BBC
Genuinely brilliant
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9.0
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Clash
Adele is sincere, poignant and affecting throughout
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8.0
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8.0 |
State
Deserves every bit of praise that will inevitably come its way once it is unleashed on the masses
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8.0
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The Guardian
A progressive, grown-up second collection
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8.0
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Q
It's a step up as significant as Amy Winehouse's Back To Black. Print edition only
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No Ripcord
21 is the coming of age record that its title suggests
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8.0
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Spin
If you're looking for a record that'll make you wanna trash your beloved's belongings and have make-up sex amid the ruins, 21's your jam
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8.0
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Under The Radar
Here’s hoping that if Adele ever finds true love, she doesn’t lose her ability to so convincingly channel heartbreak
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8.0
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Under The Radar
Formidable lungpower
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7.0
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Under The Radar
Blood Pressures won't leave you feeling clean, but The Kills have found redemption
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7.0
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Consequence Of Sound
Pop music should take more cues from Adele and this album, and less cues from other soul-wannabes/more-dancehall-hits like Duffy or Amy Winehouse
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7.0
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AU Review
Aims to consolidate her reputation as one of the great singers of her age
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Her cover of the Cure's "Lovesong" is a nice idea lost in bossa nova fluff. But when the grooves are fierce, Adele gives as good as she gets
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7.0
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Entertainment.ie
If only Adele could learn to weed out the filler, she could produce something truly amazing
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7.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
A very good, very flawed record that, on occasion, demonstrates why Adele Adkins is just at the beginning of a potentially very special career
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6.5
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The Observer
An album where the shivers don't come as often as they should
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6.0
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Independent on Sunday
A more rootsy sound for 21 than her debut 19
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6.0
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NME
Frontloaded like a steamroller sent to flatten all memory of her debut
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6.0
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The Fly
Not a bad album, but just could have been so much more
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6.0
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Mojo
The album may be top-heavy with big, billowing ballads, but it has an authentic emotional charge running through its 11 tracks. Print edition only
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6.0
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Eye Weekly
Soaring between jealousy, regret and hate is Adele’s bluesy ache of a voice, here set to sparse Motown arrangements
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6.0
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Slant Magazine
For most of 21, she's cast as a fortress of old-school soul besieged by lifeless jingles, a force of nature restrained by multiplatinum fetters
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6.0
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Rave Magazine
A fundamentally patchy album
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5.0
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PopMatters
Hopelessly weak and irrelevant
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5.0
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Blurt
Maybe for 25, Ms. Adkins will hook up with somebody like Mark Ronson or Danger Mouse to give her voice a real go-at-it
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4.0
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Uncut
Print edition only
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4.0
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The Independent
Dreary ballads and overwrought delivery
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4.0
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The Digital Fix
This album is no fun at all
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