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Adele is a sober Amy Winehouse

Updated on: 23 April,2009 08:59 AM IST  | 
Manish Gaekwad |

She picks up her guitar and strums up a tune whirling in her head about a lover she's wanted, dreamt about, and the song becomes Daydreamer

Adele is a sober Amy Winehouse

Album: 19
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She picks up her guitar and strums up a tune whirling in her head about a lover she's wanted, dreamt about, and the song becomes Daydreamer. She sings to you, sitting on her front porch, plucking a lone star from the skies above to aid as a guitar pick to give music to her cosmic elegy. She is Adele, somewhere between Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald; she is a "heartbroken soul" as she describes her music.

On her debut album, 19, Daydreamer is the first track, and justifiably, about a head strong girl in her "Juno" period of chrysalis. Best For Last is where she is chasing him on a musical tempo rhythmically adjusted between touch and go. You go girl!u00a0 Chasing Pavements, her chart topping track is the road oft taken. She is tired of chasing when she reaches an impasse, but there's no turning back from here. This track has an aerial grandeur as her voice booms out to echo into the landscape but it has all the trappings of a "hit" number.

The use of glockenspiel on the fourth track gives Cold Shoulder an immediacy to embrace its fervour. It's the first track on the record to use more than one instrument and has a forward marching Adele demanding "he" looked at her more adoringly than just a substitute for the other woman.

In Melt My Heart To Stone, the best part of the song comes towards the end when she stretches that she is "the only one in lou-ve (read love)", a brilliant twenty second instrumental fade out hops on air to clear and close the track.

In First Love, she suspends her vocal chords over a celeste, giving it the innocence of a song sung in her cradle, at night, pleading with her first lover to forgive her for aspiring for someone new. It's a lilting lullaby you should dedicate to your ex if you are a good girl who has invited him to your wedding. By the time you reach the twelfth track on her first album, you know this is her boyfriend tribute album and will go down very well with young ladies She's what they are calling the sober Amy Winehouse. If you girls are stocking up for a hen party, let her play on the music box, and stock up on flavoured breezers. Raise a toast to Adele.




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