“Like fellow crooners Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash, Adele Adkins polished her skills at the Brit School in south London – as good a finishing academy as American Idol. Her debut, which topped the British charts earlier this year, lacks the bad-girl brio of those grads, but it shows off a vocal instrument that smokes […]”
“The biggest-selling album in the UK last year was Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ and, in a rare case of sales matching artistic merit, it was well deserved. In the depths of a still-bloody break-up her heart was left to hang in the noose of soulful, emotionally stark songs. With the help of The Dap-Kings and Mark Ronson’s pitch-perfect production she created a raw and earthy modern masterpiece th”
