The biggest disappointment turns out to be the album’s most anticipated collaboration, When We Were Young, co-authoured by lauded Canadian songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. It should have been intriguing to hear his obsession with music made in mid-70s California – Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, the Lennon of Walls and Bridges – rubbing up against Adele’s crowd-pleasing songwriting approach, but somehow they’ve contrived to come up with a song that sounds like something Jimmy Young might have played on Radio 2 in 1978.