Like his nearest counterpart, Adele, Smith has every intention of forever wooing us with beautiful woe. ![]() If his being so okay about breaking up doesn’t seem sufficiently sad for you, rest assured that his coming album is full of further heartache. But Smith’s magical, tragical voice is its own kind of classicism, melting you with its vulnerability even as he tries some swagger on for size as part of his exit strategy. ![]() Maybe you’d also like a majestic bridge that never arrives that may be the missing element that leaves “Goodbyes” shy of being a pop classic. Those extra production elements drop out as easily as they drop in, though, until it’s finally just piano and fingers again, then a sobby, a cappella closing line. Eventually a light beat kicks in, then a gospel choir, as if to almost mock Smith’s romantic lamentation by raising it to the level of spiritual battle. For the first minute of the song, Smith’s voice is joined only by the sparsest and most basic piano chords, along with some finger-snapping. There’s not a lot in the track that he, carry-over collaborator Jimmy Napes, and songwriter-producer duo Stargate have come up with to detract from that instrument. Once again, Smith is plumbing the depths of melancholia with a flawless, effortlessly flexible tenor that seems to be on loan to the underworld from somewhere in the heavens. After two long years out of the spotlight, Sam Smith dropped a new single called 'Too Good At Goodbyes,' and it's seriously awesome.
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