That probably explains the album’s title. The album sounds like something a person might play in at those times when anticipation turns to disappointment or when a bunch of thoughts that are best worked out alone fill the mind. Smith’s arrangements are more intimate and sparse in most cases. Adele’s 21 sported a bevy of tunes that featured bombastic orchestration – tracks such as “Rolling in the Deep” and “Rumor Has It” come to mind. There is one big difference between Smith and Adele. Like Adele, Smith is a British singer who took the world by storm with powerful vocals and this passionate yet clear eyed and self-aware lyricism. That explains why several musical pundits have compared Smith to Adele. Smith is the kind of vocalist who wears his desires and insecurities on his sleeve, and those emotions come out through his vocals. While listeners won’t hear “I Wanna Know” on In The Lonely Hour, Smith’s arrangement of that song perfectly captures the pensiveness and the longing that characterizes the album’s mood. Backed by a keyboard, Smith transforms a dance song into a torchy ballad. Smith covers Whitney Houston's “How Will I Know,” and he comes as close to owning a Whitney Houston tune as can be possibly expected.
It’s a testament to Sam Smith’s talent, as well as his haunting and emotive vocals that the video currently going viral features him singing a song that is not on his very good album, In The Lonely Hour.
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