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| Adele
19
19 is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Adele released on 28 January 2008, through XL Recordings. Following Adele's graduation from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in May 2006, she began publishing songs and recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend. The friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to interest from XL Recordings-Wikipedia.
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Rolling Stone
Her debut, which topped the British charts earlier this year-shows off a vocal instrument that smokes the competition.
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NME
It’s clear that, for all the hype, Adele is not yet ready to produce an album of sufficient depth to match her voice.
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Slant
Adele’s lyrics aren’t anything to get excited about, but there’s room for growth and, if nothing else, her delivery signals something worth keeping both an eye and ear on.
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BBC
19 is a great start, a solid base to build a career on and a wonderful reminder of just how great our home grown talent can be.
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The Guardian
19 has been on constant repeat for several weeks now and will be, I suspect, for the rest of the year to come.
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Independent (UK)
19 is a passably decent debut, but it could have been so much more by being so much less anticipated.
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MusicOMH
19 is a decent debut album that will sell by the bucketload and propel Adele to the inevitable success she’s been widely tipped for.
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All Music
This debut isn't an empty promise of a great career; 19 is a fleshed-out stunning portrayal of a young woman with a talent beyond her years who deserves immense credit for a unique style that never fails.
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PopMatters
Young heartache never sounded as beautiful as it does through the sounds of England's latest R&B export's gorgeous debut LP.
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Drowned In Sound (UK)
– a debut album full of flaws, but bristling with possibilities; number two could be a stunner – or simply ignore it best you can.
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Albumism
19 remains an impressive work that exhibits a level of strong musicianship and focus that would serve as a durable foundation for her blossoming career.
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Digital Spy
Adele just about lives up to the hype on her eagerly anticipated debut album.
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Idolator
Everything, especially the slight raspiness in her voice, emphasizes the humanity in this most superhuman of singers and it’s that vulnerability that made people on both sides of the pond sit up and ask, “Who was THAT?!”
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Now (Toronto)
She’s often at her best alone with an acoustic guitar instead of ornamented with retro R&B references.
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RTE
Her debut album '19' goes a long way towards stamping her musical talent on the public awareness.
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Backseat Mafia
19 is a fine debut album by a rare talent, and that’s something that no amount of indignant huffing and puffing from those ‘serious’ music fans can take away from it.
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SPIN
Twenty-year-old Londoner Adele Atkins lives up to her “Sound of 2008″ hype
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Uncut (UK)
Veering between faux-soul and Hoxton hipness, Adele simply hasn’t found her own voice yet.
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Readings (AU)
This girl is hot right now, and unlike the troubled Amy Winehouse, hopefully without a drug addiction, so 2008 can be the year of Adele.
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The Channels
It’s clear that we can expect a lot more to come from Adele.
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