Success isn't everything either. Emeli Sandé can now also have a say in that. With her debut album Our Version Of Events, the singer suddenly settled among the biggest stars of British pop, but it cost her years of relationship. However, the singer is back with an album that continues the line of her debut unabated. Sandé has found herself, already in the first two songs the word 'spiritual' is
… mentioned several times. On Long Live The Angels, Sandé lives out her emotions in a grand and compelling way. She sings out her pain in Hurts, which looks a bit like in the distance. Very different from the jubilant gospel choirs in Breathing Underwater. The singer climbs the scales with conviction. That sometimes seems a bit mannered, although there will probably be a lot of people who fall for her vocal acrobatics. (PdK)more