Damon Albarn has disappointed fans expecting the third Adele album to take a drill’n’bass direction by saying that the tracks he has heard are “very middle of the road”.
The Blur frontman worked with Adele on five songs for her forthcoming, much-delayed album, now set to be released in November.
Albarn told the Sun: “Adele asked me to work with her and I took the time out for her. And I’m not a producer, so … I don’t know what is happening really. Will she use any of the stuff? I don’t think so. Let’s wait and see. The thing is, she’s very insecure. And she doesn’t need to be, she’s still so young.”
The album is also said to include contributions from Danger Mouse, Max Martin, OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder and Canadian singer/songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. The latter was the subject of one of Adele’s seven tweets over the course of this year.
This is fantastic, click away https://t.co/DhX8RPVNhu
— Adele (@OfficialAdele) January 21, 2015
Albarn added: “I heard the work she did with my friend Brian, aka Danger Mouse. It’s very middle of the road.” Danger Mouse also produced the second Gorillaz album.
However, Ed Sheeran has recently been more positive about the album, expected to be titled 25, and which follows up the 30m-selling 21.
In July he told Capital FM: “I haven’t heard it, but everyone I know who’ve worked on it is just like, ‘Dude … that record!’ Apparently it’s really good.”
