NOT LONG TO WEIGHT, ADELE IS IN THE STUDIO
‘THAT VOICE WAS GETTING ME CHILLS’, SAYS SESSION DRUMMER ON NEW ALBUM
SHE LIKES to keep fans guessing as to when exactly she will end her fiveyear hiatus, but Adele’s musical return is certainly gathering pace. Showing off her seven-stone weight loss while hosting g US show Saturday Night ight Live in the autumn, mn, the British powerhouse warned ned fans that a follow-up w-up to 2015’s 25 wouldn’t dn’t be until next year r at the earliest.
But now Pearl Jam drummer Matt att Chamberlain has suggested Adele’s s ‘powerful and emotive’ comeback ck is closer than she e makes out after spending this week in the studio io with her.
He said the 32year-old, who bounces between Los Angeles and London, sounds as mesmerising as ever.
Describing what he witnessed at her recording session, the 53year-old session musician said: ‘I just got to work on some new music for Adele, and to hear that voice in my headphones was getting me chills.
‘It was just so powerful and emotive.
You know her voice, but to be across the room from somebody doing that, it’s just insane.
‘You hear it on the radio and you go, “Yeah, it’s really good”, but to be in the room with these people and feel that energy, it’s just so heavy.’
Letting slip as to where Adele is with her fourth album, he spilled: ‘She’s writing some new material with her songwriter Rick Nowels. ‘She wanted t to do it with so some drums and an so we just put pu our masks on on, she was in th the room – ye yeah, holy s***.’ s** Adele A rec recently ins insisted ‘I honestly hon have no idea’ as to whe when she would rele release som something. An And after refusing refu to tease any music durin during her SNL stint in October, or pla play a snippet of he her record, she poste posted: ‘I’m going back to my cave now t to be the (singl (single) cat lady that I am! Peace out til next year.’ The divorced mother-of-one shared the relationship status in her farewell after she was seen on dates with 38year-old London grime star Skepta.