![]() ![]() The hype vortex has swallowed Smith, torn him asunder and rended his heart in twain can he rise forth and prove that he’ll not succumb to expectations? Is his much-awaiting, eagerly-anticipated debut LP able to stand up against his supernova stardom? In The Lonely Hour arrives with so much baggage, in every sense bar the literal one.įirst off, the neo-R&B, soulful pop is grand. Cosmic expansion, more like.īut, as the late, great Uncle Ben (from Spiderman) once said: “with great power comes great responsibility”. But going from zero to hero is no biggie, not for Sam Smith. ![]() Dominating the music press since his inaugural chart jaunts with Disclosure and Naughty Boy and subsequently winning coveted gongs – the BBC Sound Of 2014 and the Critics’ Choice at the BRITs – he’s become the UK’s commercial breakthrough artist du jour, and has festival stints lined up nationwide that last year would’ve been no more than sordid fantasy. Touted as the “male Adele” – an interesting flip of gender comparisons, there – Cambridgeshire’s man of the hour Sam Smith couldn’t be in a better position to obliterate this summer. ![]()
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