“It’s taken Emeli Sandé almost five years to follow her 5m-selling debut ‘Our Version Of Events’, a length of time that feels apposite both for her sake and ours. ‘Overexposed’ doesn’t begin to do justice to how ubiquitous the Scots-Zambian singer became in the 18 months following that album’s release – for a while it felt as if the BBC, the Brits and her record label were colluding in jamming a fe”
“The British pop star Emeli Sandé writes power ballads that start at “cinematic” and scale upward. Her second album places that massive voice atop tracks of stately but interchangeable gloom.”