25 is a portrait not of the artist Adele, but of the woman Adele Atkins. The portrait may not be flawless, but that's OK. Flaws are meant to be embraced.

Twenty-year-old Londoner Adele Atkins lives up to her “Sound of 2008” hype, in that she represents a highly commercial compromise between Amy Winehouse’s genuine soul danger (19‘s bracing ...

What a difference two years make. When Brit school graduate Adele Atkins released her debut album 19 (her age at the time), she seemed, along with the likes of Lily Allen and Kate Nash ...