Adele – 25 (Special Holiday Edition) 2015

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Adele – 25 (Special Holiday Edition) 2015
MP3 320 kbps | Tracks: 20 | 01:25:30 | 202 Mb
Genre: Indie Pop, Neo Soul, Funk, R&B | Label: XL Recordings, Hostess Ent. Un.LTD

25 is the third studio album recorded by British singer and songwriter Adele. It was released on 20 November 2015, through XL Recordings.
The lead single, "Hello", was a critical and commercial success, topping the charts in 28 countries including the United Kingdom and the United States, where "Hello" became the first single ever to sell one million downloads in a release week.

25 received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76 based on 21 reviews. Neil McCormick from The Daily Telegraph gave the album a rating of 5 out of 5 stars, saying that "Covering much of the same kind of musical and emotional terrain, 25 is certainly the equal of its predecessor… The beauty of Adele's singing is how effortless it is… She gives herself space, words falling neatly with music and rhythm, albeit she has the advantage of being able to stretch vowels and add syllables apparently at will." Another positive review came from Mark Savage of BBC who believed that "overall, the record is a worthy successor to 21… [Adele's] vocals are undiminished, conveying sorrow, joy, sincerity and warmth, often in the space of a single phrase. And the A-list hitmakers who populate the record wisely build the songs around her presence," adding that "Well, your ears won't bleed, but your tear ducts are going to get a workout."

Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly called it "A record that feels both new and familiar–a beautiful if safe collection of panoramic ballads and prettily executed detours". Billboard praised Adele's vocal performance writing that it's "swathed in echo, sounding like she’s wailing beneath the vaults of the planet’s most cavernous cathedral, they hit hard." The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Adele’s fans have been waiting for years for new Adele songs to explain their experiences to them. And they get a worthy batch on 25, an album so full of heavy-duty drama that it makes a more lighthearted peer such as Katy Perry seem like a Pez dispenser." Paul Bridgewater of The Line of Best Fit commended the album for being "almost an embarrassment of (pop) riches", arguing that it included "the quintessential DNA of what a 21st-century pop record is" and "some incredible modern classics".

Reviewing the album for The Independent, Andy Gill rated it 3 out of 5 stars. He praised tracks like "River Lea" and "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)", calling them "isolated moments of musical intrigue scattered here and there through the album", but Gill believed that the songs on 25 gradually became "swamped by the kind of dreary piano ballads that are Adele's fall-back position".