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"&lt;p class=\"Default\"&gt;Where do lonely hearts go? British singer Sam Smith, 21, has written a dissertation on the question with his debut LP. Smith &amp;#x2013; a gifted blue-eyed-soulster with Barry Gibb&amp;apos;s flexible falsetto and Mark Ronson&amp;apos;s ear for throwback grooves &amp;#x2013; got noticed last year for his vocals on house duo Disclosure&amp;apos;s slow jam &amp;quot;Latch.&amp;quot; With &lt;em&gt;In the Lonely Hour&lt;/em&gt;&amp;apos;s orchestral flourishes and focus on a single unrealized affair, it seems the baby-faced singer is being positioned as a male Adele. But while the album flirts with a few radiant moments, Smith&amp;apos;s endless yearning isn&amp;apos;t wrapped in as many irresistible packages.&amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p class=\"Default\"&gt;&lt;span class=\"Default__Char\"&gt;He rolls deepest on the gospel-powered &amp;quot;Stay With Me&amp;quot; &amp;#x2013; a spare track with a simple arrangement that matches its bare plea &amp;#x2013; and &amp;quot;Like I Can,&amp;quot; a blissful groove that packs a Seventies rock-radio punch. Elsewhere, though he reaches for his upper register with the same eagerness that he grasps for love, his emo hopelessness is a flood drowning everything in sight. The album&amp;apos;s team of producers gives Smith a mostly blank canvas to showcase his vocals, providing room for soaring riffs over fingerpicked guitars on &amp;quot;Not in That Way&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Leave Your Lover.&amp;quot; But neither leaves as indelible a mark as Smith&amp;apos;s lost love has left on his heart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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