Though he ultimately lost to Beck’s Morning Phase for album of the year, Smith’s debut album, In the Lonely Hour, still won for best pop vocal album - making Smith the first openly gay male to win the award. The night started out fortuitously for Smith when he won best new artist - the night’s first televised award - and the wins just kept rolling in. In just his first Grammy Awards ceremony, the soulful singer has come up big, winning four trophies during tonight’s telecast, including song of the year and record of the year for his hit “Stay With Me ( Darkchild Version).” There are no dull moments here, only highlights.The hour won’t be lonely for Sam Smith tonight, as he’ll have quite a few Grammys to keep him company. These are compact little numbers that squeeze together so many interesting compositional phrases-choruses, b-sections, bridges, etc.-that you’d be remiss not to pay attention. So does “Not In That Way,” which finds Smith singing to a spare guitar about unrequited love, and “Like I Can,” an adrenaline-charged number where he shoots down his competition (“He’ll never love you like I can, can, can”). A song like “Stay With Me”-with its gospel-inspired chord progression and goose-bump-inducing choir-sung backgrounds-clocks in at just under three minutes. But much like the AM radio-era classic soul that they aspire to mimic, Smith’s songs are short and to the point. These days, artists often overthink, oversing and overproduce their records incidentally, songs sound like they’ll never end. Shop our newest and most popular Sam Smith sheet music such as 'Love Goes', 'Diamonds' and 'Forgive Myself', or click the button above. Musicnotes features the worlds largest online digital sheet music catalogue with over 400,000 arrangements available to print and play instantly. In the Lonely Hour also has brevity on its side. English singer/songwriter Sam Smith is quite possibly the man of the hour the world latched onto his unique vocal when he featured on Disclosure’s 2013 breakthrough hit Latch, not too long after he released his solo debut single Lay Me Down, only to then have gone viral as the collaborative vocalist on Naughty Boy’s number one hit La La La. Browse All Sam Smith Sheet Music from 'Sam Smith - Love Goes'. Peep his breathy falsetto on “Life Support”-that’s a metaphor for his partner-where you can almost visualize him in the recording booth, eyes closed, belting out notes. There’s a soulfulness to him that not everyone has. The arrangements are lush and expansive-“Good Thing” and “I’m Not the Only One,” are notably highlights-but the songs are brought to life by Smith’s clever vocal arpeggiations and phrasings. That isn’t to say Smith is a better singer, but on this LP his vocals are out in front of the mix, occasionally drenched in cathedral-like reverbs and delays, which gives the LP a dated sound. While critics often compare him to Adele, In the Lonely Hour sounds substantially more raw than anything she’s ever done. One of Smith’s biggest selling points is, again, his voice.

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