"A voice that needs no accompaniment"

It might be fashionable (and easy) to bash Adele, even when you're hardly standing in a position from which you can look down on her (hello there Noel Gallagher!), so the appraisal of 25 written by tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus for The Talkhouse - focusing on the simultaneous "power and fragility" of the human voice as an instrument - makes for a refreshing change.