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Louise Lavigueur

Adele's album 30 hailed by critics while fans say they are in 'floods of tears'

Global music icon Adele has dropped her first album in six years today leaving fans in 'floods of tears' and rave reviews from music industry critics.

Fans have been eagerly awaiting the hit-makers return to offer up her emotional and empowering journey through her beautifully crafted music and powerful ballads.

But the album’s longest track To Be Loved has been gaining the most attention, with fans in floods of tears at the stars vulnerability and resonating lyrics.

The standout track, is being praised as a career highlight for Adele, as she sings: 'I built a house for love to grow/ I was so young that it was hard to know/ I’m as lost now as I was back then/ Always make a mess of everything.''

Fans took to Twitter with one saying: "Holding back the tears on the bus.''

Adele's single Easy On Me has already stormed the charts after release last month (CBS via Getty Images)

Another added: "Adele making me cry ugly tears."

A third quipped: "Eating my tears for breakfast thanks a lot adele."

Track three, My Little Love, has also hit the same emotional chord, mainly due to the song including audio of her son Angelo.

And it's not just fans who have been lapping up the offering, as critics have heaped praise on Adele with Rolling Stone hailing 30 her 'most powerful album yet'.

Adele appeared for One Night Only for a US broadcast CBS special (CBS)

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With a five star review, the titles Rob Sheffield wrote: “Adele has never sounded more ferocious than she does on 30 – more alive to her own feelings, more virtuosic at shaping them into songs in the key of her own damn life. It’s her toughest, most powerful album yet.”

And the Independent awarded four-stars with Annabel Nugent citing the singer's album as "unmediated" and praised her ability to pen her lyrics "mid-anxiety attack jotting down whatever comes to mind."

Adele has been praised for exposing her own vulnerability in her lyrics (CBS via Getty Images)

The singer has spoke freely about using her emotion from her divorce to Simon Konecki and how its affect on their nine-year-old son Angelo became her inspiration for the album.

Her single Easy On Me, has already spent a month at the top of the UK charts ahead of the album release via Columbia records today.

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