Adagio - Vinyle Blanc

Description

Greek artist Σtella (pronounced Stella) releases her hypnotic new album Adagio via Sub Pop. Adagio is a pop album that feels like a warm blanket; it envelops its listeners in nylon-string guitars, light percussion, psychedelic keyboards, and staccato drums. Written and recorded over a five-year period with a consortium of international collaborators including Rafael Cohen of !!! and Las Palabras, and British songwriter Gabriel Stebbing, Adagio is a 27-minute meditation on love and desire, rest and time. While most of the album is sung in English, like all of her records, Σtella also delivers her first two songs in Greek, “Omorfo Mou,” and a cover of a 1969 Greek new wave cult classic, Litsa Sakellariou’s “Ta Vimata.” After the release of her debut Sub Pop album, Up and Away, in 2022, she quickly found success. That success is a blessing, of course, but Σtella sometimes finds herself missing the slower pace of her youth. This nostalgia is the common thread of her fifth album, the captivating Adagio, which takes its name from the term for music meant to be played slowly.