Adele, 25, 2015 on Columbia / XL Recordings

The inescapable Adele’s third studio album (in between 21 and 25 she put out a Live at Royal Albert Hall album) named like the previous for her age at time of writing & recording. This was the one that starts with “Hello”—if I were an album reviewer my review might have been “Adele had me at ‘Hello.'”

Adele wrote / co-wrote all the songs here, working with Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, and Paul Epworth among others. There’s also more electronics here – synths and percussion.

My copy—via the Salem Flea Marketplace—is an RTI pressing from 2015.