1. ROLLING IN THE DEEP 2. RUMOUR HAS IT 3. TURNING TABLES 4. DON’T YOU REMEMBER 5. SET FIRE TO THE RAIN 6. HE WON’T GO 7. TAKE IT ALL 8. I’LL BE WAITING 9. ONE AND ONLY 10. LOVESONG 11. SOMEONE LIKE YOU This is the VINYL version of this album

In 2009, the British singer/songwriter Adele took home a pair of Grammy Awards — including Best New Artist — at the age of only 19, for a highly acclaimed debut album of songs which introduced a new and authentic young voice to the world, expressing the bittersweet turbulence of adolescence awakening into adulthood.

With “Adele 21,” one of the most anticipated releases, Adele comes of age with her second album, available on NEW vinyl. It is a collection of deeply personal songs, finely wrought and powerfully delivered, which communicate the power and glory of real love and real heartbreak through a range of musical moods and settings.

From the album’s first single, “Rolling In the Deep,” (co-written with producer Paul Epworth and described by Adele as “a dark, bluesy gospel disco tune”), through the fiery rumble of “Rumour Has It” to the orchestral builds of “Turning Tables,” the mysterioous pop imagery of “Set Fire To The Rain,” the gospel-tinged “One and Only” and the tear-stained resignation of “Someone Like You,” (co-written with Grammy winner and track producer Dan Wilson), this album is a musical and emotional tour de force, a portrait of the artist as a young woman coming into her own.

All of the LP’s tracks, with the exception of a cool acoustic guitar rendition of The Cure’s “Lovesong,” were written by Adele over the course of a year. Among the strengths and allure of “21” is the chance to get closer to the real Adele. “I think I come across moody and serious with my music,” she admits, “but, in real life, I'm sarcastic and very cheeky. I really wanted at least one song on this album that was representative of me as a girl, as a person. I don't think the playful me came across on the first album. It's important to show growth and development.”

Drawing inspiration from her own life, Adele says, “I had the most poignant relationship in between these two records. I feel really blessed and lucky I was given that relationship... Sometimes when I meet artists, they don't seem to have any reality in their lives. It's completely in a bubble that's not allowed to be burst. I'm just screaming for my bubble to be burst. I met him and he was brilliant, it was a really great relationship and it went sour, obviously, because I made a a bitchy record about him,” she laughs. “He made me really passionate for myself, for him, for  love, for life, for food, for wine, for film, for politics, architecture, traveling which I hate — I hate flying and stuff like that. He made me really, really interested in just being alive, which I hadn’t felt yet. It was incredible. When I was promoting “19,” I thought “what the hell am I going to write about? Hotels? Air miles? I was very, very lucky that life intervened.”

As much as “21” is about love's rocky road, it's also about finding peace amidst life’s turmoils. “That's what the record is about,” Adele confirms, “and I'm just more forgiving because of it.” The singer/songwriter says she began prepping for this LP during a tour of America when her bus driver turned her onto music from Nashville that was “amazing country and blues and rockabilly and bluegrass and gospel.” Adele, who used to “put on a song to cry to or laugh to or get ready to go out to,” began to listen to music in a new, more profound sense. She locked herself in her apartment for a month and listened to music like Etta James’s. Adele says music is “all about relating” to listeners, and you will understand that when you hear this fine vinyl LP.

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