Albums of the week

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Sam Smith: The Thrill Of It All (Capitol)

The Big Voice is back. After three years, Sam Smith follows up his Grammy award-winning, multimillion-selling 2014 debut album, In The Lonely Hour. While that album pitched him as the male version of Adele (formulaically, not too far from the truth), there was nonetheless a version of the person trying to escape from the similarities. The Thrill Of It All arrives after a ...