Adele – 25 (Reissue)

Adele's 25, her new album featuring "Hello"

First new music since the Oscar-winning single "Skyfall" in 2012

With 25, her third album, and probably the last in a trilogy of albums with an age in the title, the 27-year-old multi-Grammy songstress Adele says 25 is about geting to know "who I've become without realizing. And I'm sorry it took so long but, you know, life happened."

The album leads off with an appropriately-titled salutation to the fans who've missed her — "Hello" is the first single. The video for the song was directed by celebrated young Canadian director Xavier Dolan and casts Adele as alone and calling a past lover to apologize for "everything I've done" but finding no one answers her call. The song was written by Adele and her producer Greg Kurstin, who has also worked with Sia, P!nk, Peaches, Beck and the Flaming Lips.

The new album also features songs by Bruno Mars, Danger Mouse and Tobias Jesso Jr.