{"product_id":"stella-adagio-pink","title":"Stella- Adagio - Pink Vinyl ( Vinyl )","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlmost as soon as Stella Chronopoulou began writing Adagio, her fifth album as Stella, she knew the time had finally come to sing in Greek, her native tongue. It would be a first. She started the record almost by accident in 2019, during an 11-hour boat ride to the island of Anafi. Stella had recently gone through a patch of personal turmoil and needed a break from home. On the ferry, she pulled out her cell phone as the boat clipped through the Mediterranean and began with a simple melody, steadily piecing together a rough instrumental. As psychedelic keyboards twinkled and swayed above staccato drums, the track suggested some deep exhalation, as if Stella were letting go of long-unnecessary baggage. For a spell, she set the instrumental aside. She wasn't ready yet, or in a rush. \r\n\r\nStella, after all, grew up in a slow place. During her youth in a relatively rural suburb of Athens, Greece, she and her friends played unfettered in empty streets, not worried about cars or permission, and living felt easy. But in the last decade life has steadily become busier for Stella, now based in the heart of Athens. She has become one of modern Greece's most popular musical exports, with three sophisticated, playful pop albums rendered with international élan. After her Sub Pop debut, Up and Away, in 2022, she catapulted beyond three million monthly Spotify listeners. That success was a blessing, but Stella sometimes found herself pining for the slower pace of her youth. \r\n\r\nThat longing is the thread that loosely binds together her fifth album, the entrancing Adagio. Borrowing it's name from the term for music that's meant to be played slowly, Adagio is a pop record that feels like a very warm blanket, it's nylon-string guitars and featherlight percussion swaddling it's listeners for three minutes at a time. Written and recorded over the span of five years, with a consortium of international collaborators including !!!'s Rafael Cohen and British songwriter Gabriel Stebbing, Adagio is a 27-minute meditation on love and desire, rest and time. Though the bulk of it is sung in English, Stella delivers her first two songs in Greek here-\"Omorfo Mou,\" the one that began on the boat, and a cover of a 1969 cult classic of the Greek New Wave, Litsa Sakelariou's \"Ta Vimata.\" It is a sign of the self-assurance that radiates throughout these tender and smitten little tunes.\r\n\r\nStart to finish, Stella sounds more at ease and comfortable than she's ever been on Adagio. These fetching songs will not slow her career or grant her that title track's wish. But, for half an hour, Adagio adds a measure of warmth to the world, with time loosening it's grip even if it doesn't slow down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdagio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ta Vimata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Omorfo Mou\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Baby Brazil feat. Las Palabras\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Can I Say\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 80 Days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Too Poor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Corfu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Caravan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57416381858127,"sku":"098787163506","price":3.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/8725\/2047\/files\/4396849-3313776.jpg?v=1775560031","url":"https:\/\/vibesvinyl.com\/products\/stella-adagio-pink","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}