Adéla: Prima (white vinyl, UK import) [CAPITOL]

Why you'll love it

The UK pressing of Prima, on white vinyl with a tracklist insert. "Ain't in LA" made Adéla the first Slovak artist ever on the Billboard Hot 100, "Nicole Kidman" went top ten, and the album reached the top ten in Canada, the UK and the US.

This edition

• UK pressing
• White vinyl
• Insert with tracklist

About the album

Adéla came to most people's attention on Dream Academy, the 2023 Hybe and Geffen competition that also turned up in Netflix's Pop Star Academy: Katseye. She didn't win it, and went solo instead, which in hindsight looks like the better deal. Prima takes its name from the prima ballerina, the top rank a dancer can reach, and the songs are about the training, insecurity and nerve it takes to get there; "KGB" uses the Soviet secret police as a metaphor for her own relentless pop-star drills.

She wrote it with Julia Michaels, Billy Walsh and Blake Slatkin, and it's a sharp, modern pop record with hyperpop and electropop edges: "Red Bottoms" struts, "Ain't in LA" rides heavy synths while arguing that success doesn't need a Los Angeles postcode, and the whole thing went to number one in Slovakia and the Netherlands. Not bad for a debut. Most of us were still working out which way round the needle goes.

Tracklist

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Out September 4, 2026 on Capitol.