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Our Version of Events

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Heaven
4:12
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02
My Kind of Love
3:23
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03
Where I Sleep
2:12
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Wonder (Original Mix)
Artist: Naughty Boy & Emeli Sandé
3:25
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Mountains
4:13
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Clown
3:43
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Daddy (feat. Naughty Boy)
3:08
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Maybe
3:48
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Suitcase
3:08
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Breaking the Law
2:54
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Next to Me
3:17
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River
4:40
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Lifetime
2:54
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Hope
2:58
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Total Tracks: 14   Total Length: 47:55

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Award-winning critic Barry Walters is a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone, Spin, the Village Voice, and many other publications. His interview with Prince a...more »

06.07.12
Scottish R&B upstart's debut's got a knack for drama
2012 | Label: CAPITOL

Like many of her American contemporaries, Scottish diva Emeli Sandé got her start singing hip-hop hooks and writing for other singers. But unlike other R&B upstarts, Sandé wrote for the likes of Susan Boyle, and her singing skills are similarly operatic. “Heaven,” her U.K. debut single and her first album’s opening track, delivers a cyclone of symphonic breakbeat gospel that recalls early Massive Attack. “I wake with good intentions/ But the day it always lasts too long,” she wails, as an controlled chaos of strings, horns and James Brown’s evergreen “Funky Drummer” beat whirl around her like the special effects in a martial arts spectacular. She’s got a knack for drama, and there’s a lot of it throughout Our Version of Events.

Sandé sings with preternatural urgency, as if she were a superhero and her every note averted calamity. Accordingly, nearly every track here, slow or fast, is fitted out with suspense-raising orchestration. The effect works like a charm on the strongest compositions — “Heaven,” “My Kind of Love,” “Daddy” and “Next to Me.” When Sandé’s melisma overpowers her melodies — most tellingly on “Hope,” the Alicia Keys-produced, Whitney-esque closing track — the intensity of nearly every element gets overwhelming. Sandé… read more »

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Our Version of Events by Emeli Sande

Mama0679

Love this lady's voice! Not normally my kind of music, but some times I need mellow, heartfelt tunes & this delivers. Not a bad track on the album, and I will love it a long time.

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