19 - Adele
  • Band Name: Adele
  • Record Label: XL
  • Release Date: Jun 10, 2008
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  • Summary: The English singer was named the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice even before her debut album was released.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 19
  2. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. Forget her peers or even ex-Eurythmics - think Dusty or Aretha, albeit of SW2, instead. 19 has been on constant repeat for several weeks now and will be, I suspect, for the rest of the year to come.
  2. The co-writes--not as many as you might've expected--generally boom from the speakers. The self-penned efforts are bare-boned, erratically excellent but frustratingly blighted by Adele's penchant for going beyond her capabilities as a vocalist.
  3. It can't even stack up to Gabriella Cilmi. Estelle? Leona Lewis? Yikes. Avoid.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 32
  2. Negative: 2 out of 32
  1. JoshR.
    10
    Amazing!! Adele has an amazing voice for the age of 19! expect more great things from her in the future!!
    • 1 of 2 users said yes
  2. HarryW.
    5
    Coffee table music I'm afraid. If you like Norah Jones (and I do, kind of) you should enjoy this but it's not going to make you rip up your life and start over. Adele has a nice enough voice but lacking in the colour that willcome with age. Whether she will still be in the public eye when she gains that is dubious (Dido anyone?) Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Cripes
    3
    Dull Dull Dull, She may have a great voice and Chasing Pavements may be good but this is easily the dullest album I have heard in a couple of years....shame Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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