In her Facebook post on 21 October, Adele explained the themes of her third album: "My last record was a break up record and if I had to label this one I would call it a make up record.
In a statement on her Facebook page, the singer says: "My last record was a break up record and if I had to label this one I would call it a make-up record.
There are a lot of great break-up records out there".
As the record winds down, Joseph reads an excerpt from his short story Decisions Of Skin, the gloomy humor of which breaks up the record and prepares one for the last few tracks, setting you down in a satisfied shadow.
This is a break-up record, hurt and raw and feeling rough.
Meanwhile, "The Mountain," the most recent album by Ms. Wennerstrom's band, was essentially a break-up record.
"My last record was a break-up record and if I had to label this one I would call it a make-up record.
"It really isn't a break-up record at all," Tunstall insists of a spacious, beguiling beautiful album recorded in two bursts in the Arizona desert with alt.country legend Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), one session either side of her twin losses.
A touching, questioning affair with brass, strings, simpatico piano and more feel than the Braille edition of War and Peace, Metals is something of a veiled break-up record.
Green has described the album as "me writing Binki's break-up record and she writing mine", and throughout, Green's strapping baritone acts as ballast to Shapiro's windblown sweetness.
