“She's never sounded more ferocious than she does on '30 '— more alive to her own feelings, more virtuosic at shaping them into songs in the key of her own damn life”
“Once again, Adele transforms her heartbreak into a searching, graceful, and incredibly moving album. But the complexity of her emotions and the nuanced production make this her most ambitious work to date.”
““Cry your heart out, it’ll clean your face,” Adele admonishes herself a third of the way through her fourth studio album – the first (after 19, 21 and 25) to feature an even number in the title. It’s a record in which Adele ugly-cries, then wipes off her streaked makeup, sloughing off layers of dead skin in the process: best experienced with a terrycloth flannel to hand and a goblet of something r”
“Adele's 30 takes a bold leap into the unknown”
“Apart from a few ill-conceived stylistic switch-ups, 30 is a classy and moving pop record.”
