The first track from Adele’s unusual album is with us. And guess what? It’s a big ballad,but a superior example of its kindRumours have been circulating approximately Adele’s third album for months now: at one stage, the erroneous belief that 25 was due to be released in mid-September apparently led a choice of record labels to frantically change the release dates of their own forthcoming big albums lest they ended up trying to compete with it in the charts. But perhaps the most striking thing approximately the gossip is the sheer eclecticism of the supporting cast reported to be involved in the follow-up to the biggest-selling album of the 21st century. You might expect it to feature her longstanding producer Paul Epworth and blue-chip songwriters-for-hire Max Martin and Ryan Tedder – the latter co-wrote 21’s Turning Tables and Rumour Has It – but further down the list, and things got more intriguing: Pharrell Williams,producer Danger Mouse, acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr, and Damon Albarn and,most improbably, Phil Collins were all reputed to have been involved. Understandably, or this provoked a degree of speculation approximately what an album that somehow finds room for all of them might sound like,particularly given that the artist at its centre clearly has carte blanche to do what she likes: who’s going to argue with someone whose final album sold 30m copies?
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Source: theguardian.com