1. Heaven - Emeli Sandé 4:12
2. My Kind of Love - Emeli Sandé 3:21
3. Where I Sleep - Emeli Sandé 2:12
4. Mountains - Emeli Sandé 4:13
5. Clown - Emeli Sandé 3:43
6. Daddy (feat. Naughty Boy) - Emeli Sandé 3:08
7. Maybe - Emeli Sandé 3:48
8. Suitcase - Emeli Sandé 3:08
9. Breaking the Law - Emeli Sandé 2:54
10. Next to Me - Emeli Sandé 3:15
11. River - Emeli Sandé 4:40
12. Lifetime - Emeli Sandé 2:54
13. Hope - Emeli Sandé 2:58
14. Read All About It (Pt. III) - Emeli Sandé 4:42

In 2012, Brit's Critic Choice Award, a best new artist prize for the United Kingdom's best talent, unsurprisingly went to Emeli Sandé, a woman being lauded for her crystalline voice and her immaculate songwriting skills. By the time her debut album, Our Version of Events, hit shelves, Sandé had already been a number one-selling singer and songwriter, and had her work covered by names such as Tinchy Stryder, Alesha Dixon, and Susan Boyle. Many call the 24-year old starlet a jack-of-all-trades, and after listening to her first full-length debut, it's easy to understand why. Events skip from genre to genre breezily, often being carried by Sandé's piercing voice. Sonically, the album sounds like a whisked-blend of Leona Lewis, Kate Bush, and Alicia Keys -- but, somehow, Sandé still establishes her own style between the airy coos, sultry piano melodies, and sprinkling of xylophones, synths, and bells. Sandé's strongest tracks are such a mixed-bag -- the Professor Green-spinoff "Read All About It (Part III)" is a raw interpretation of the massive pop single, "Lifetime" is a midtempo love song that's as engaging as a close listen as it is late at night, and the electrifying first single "Heaven" has all the makings of a vibrant dance record slicked up for the floor. A true feature of this album is the sheer quality of the compositions, which, for lack of a better term, are unexpectedly sophisticated and nuanced for a mainstream record. What holds the album back in parts is the fact that its tempo is too slow at times, however, Sandé makes up for it with passion and precision. Our Version of Events is an earnest collection of works by a woman who is as good a composer as she is vocalist, a lethal combination in today's pop music business. In this case, the Critic's Choice Award was well deserved.--- Matthew Chisling, Rovi

„Our Version Of Events” to ciepła, mądra, szczera, zabawna i inteligentna płyta, a przy tym równie oryginalna co szalona blond fryzura Emeli i tatuaż z obrazem Fridy Kahlo pokrywający większą część jej prawego ramienia. Album oddaje lęki, myśli, emocje i nadzieje młodej kobiety, lecz trafia w serce każdego, kto ceni wyobraźnię, ciekawą metaforykę i wreszcie - cholernie dobre piosenki. Wszystkie utwory napisała Emeli, a produkcją zajął się jej stały współpracownik Shahid ‘Naughty Boy’ Khan. Podobnie jak wiele dziś legendarnych debiutów, płyta Sandé trafia w swój idealny czas. Jest wiarygodna, nie siląc się na pozy, złamane serce leczy szaloną miłością, jest przemyślana, ale nie przekombinowana. Oto do cna brytyjska produkcja o niezaprzeczalnym potencjale światowym, stworzona przez jedną z najciekawszych młodych artystek ostatnich lat. ---empik.com

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01 – Daddy
02 – Where I Sleep
03 – Breaking The Law
04 – Enough
05 – My Kind Of Love
06 – Clown
07 – River
08 – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
09 – Suitcase
10 – Read All About It (Pt. III) (with Professor Green)
11 – Wonder
12 – Mountains
13 – Heaven
14 – Beneath Your Beautiful (with Labrinth)
15 – Maybe
16 – Next To Me

It’s been a huge year for Scottish pop singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé. The 25 year-old’s debut album, Our Version of Events, has sold more copies than any other in Britain this year — overtaking Adele’s 21 in August — and she’s had three top-five singles, including recent number one Beneath Your Beautiful, a collaboration with another young starlet, Labrinth. She also performed at the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics — not bad for a former medical student who started her music career penning songs for Cheryl Cole.

This concert for the Prince’s Trust, part of a celebratory four-stop UK tour of cavernous auditoriums, was an appropriate end for Sandé’s annus mirabilis. Her performance confirmed what we already knew: she has a remarkable voice, plenty of songwriting talent, some rousing, direct pop songs — and a weakness for pushing the schmaltzy button a bit too often.

Sandé, dressed in a sleek black gown and wearing her trademark bleached blonde quiff, stretched out songs from her debut album and her turns as a featured artist over a two-hour set. Her backing band kicked up an airy soul-pop groove, making for a looser performance than at the Olympics, particularly on songs like Tiger and My Kind of Love, the latter of which allowed Sandé to unleash her powerhouse vocal in all its lush, melismatic splendour.

But while most of Sandé’s upbeat songs veer well clear of falling into the asinine pop trap, the same can’t be said for her ballads. She couldn’t resist a long, dreary segment of the mushy stuff, backed by twinkly percussion and string sections. The crowd — which ranged from families to trendy twentysomethings, a mark of the ubiquity she has achieved this year — was mercifully woken up when rapper Professor Green appeared to give Read All About It a smouldering crescendo, his cheeky bravado delivering some welcome oomph.

The finale had an air of inevitability about it, as Sandé encored with Beneath Your Beautiful, featuring a guest appearance from Labrinth, and her gospel-tinged hit Next To Me, dedicated here to her new husband. She sounded like a different singer from the one who made her debut with the clubby dance beats of Heaven last year – a smoother, staider one, the pop Queen of the Olympics. Time will tell if she’s a better one. --- James Lachno, telegraph.co.uk

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