| Twenty-one days until ADELE's new album '21' is released! |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Monday, 03 January 2011 21:42 |
 At the age of nineteen, ADELE's debut album went straight into the UK charts at Number One - and she also became the very first recipient ever of the BRITS Critics' Choice Award. The next year when aged twenty, Adele was recognised for her talents on the other side of the Atlantic, winning two Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Adele's '19' album has since gone on to be certified double platinum in the UK and to sell over 2 million copies worldwide. What a girl... On Monday January 24th, Adele's follow-up album '21' will be released in New Zealand. Adele cites key influences of Wanda Jackson, Yvonne Fair, Andrew Bird, Mary J Blige, Mos Def, Elbow, Tom Waits and Kanye West, on her new album. Adele recorded most of '21' in Malibu with Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Jay Z, Red Hot Chilli Peppers) and the rest back in London with Paul Epworth (Plan B, Bloc Party, Florence). Of '21', Adele has said: "I'm very excited, nervous, eager, anxious but chuffed to announce my new album! It's taken a while and it knocked me for six when writing it. It's different from '19', it's about the same things but in a different light. I deal with things differently now. I'm more patient, more honest, more forgiving and more aware of my own flaws, habits and principles. Something that comes with age I think. So fittingly this record is called '21'. The whole reason I called my first album '19' was about cataloging what happened to me then and who I was then, like a photo album you see the progression and changes in a person throughout the years." Read the tracklisting for Adele's forthcoming album '21' below: 1. Rolling In The Deep 2. Rumour Has It 3. Turning Tables 4. Don't You Remember 5. Set Fire To The Rain 6. He Won't Go 7. Take It All 8. I'll Be Waiting 9. One And Only 10. Lovesong 11. Someone Like You |
