Tag: XL Recordings
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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…
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Adele, 21, 2011 on XL Recordings
What can you say about Adele, so popular to be parodied in SNL as the one voice capable of uniting all Americans in adoration? This of course was her followup to her debut “19” and was a massive success in its own right with “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You” which were sort…
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Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend, 2008 on XL Recordings.
Debut album from Vampire Weekend, including Oxford Comma and Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. How could I not love a band with grooves like this and references to punctuation? For the English major (and PhD) to have an indie rock band come out of Columbia with a pedigree involving Dirty Projectors and touring with The Shins…
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Adele, 19, 2008 on XL Recordings / Columbia
Her massive debut album, originally released in 2008. My copy is a later reissue but I’m not sure what year it was issued. Included the hit “Chasing Pavements” as well as a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” that many think is her own. Hard to believe how fully formed she came…
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Radiohead, Kid A Mnesia, 2021 on XL Recordings.
Radiohead, Kid A Mnesia, 2021 on XL Recordings. Kid A (2000), Amnesiac (2001), plus Amnesia (collected unreleased tracks).