Smith actually continues with the band and backup chorus in “Baby, You Make Me Crazy,” another favorite of mine. So far, so good, and it’s at this point I gave myself up to the album, leaving my reservations behind. And after that is one of my absolute favorite tracks on the album, “One Last Song,” a jazzy band track with a backup chorus. Next is “Say It First,” an actual happy love song. It slowly builds from isolated vocals into the triumphant chorus, having you scream along with him that you, like Smith, can’t be hurt anymore. Smith eases you into the next 35:38 of his emotional rollercoaster with his previously-released single, “Too Good at Goodbyes,” a song that for some reason I can’t listen to without getting it stuck in my head. But here I am, telling you in 600 or so words that the “The Thrill of It All” is everything you could want it be, and yet it still managed to surprise me. So maybe the world doesn’t need to hear anyone say how incredible Smith’s vocals are, how his lyrics are an emotional punch to the gut or how he has made leaps and bounds in production of tracks from his previous album. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, his first album to do so. Sam Smith’s “The Thrill of It All” debuted at No. Alex Clarke, Staff Reporter | November 17, 2017
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