Easy on Me is utterly, emphatically and triumphantly “Adele”. Yet it somehow also represents a definitive artistic progression from 25, her 2015 album.
A single so Adele-esque it’s quite hard to make a qualitative judgment about: you hear it and think “yes, that’s definitely Adele, doing the stuff that Adele does” and adjust your response according to whether or not The Stuff That Adele Does is your idea of musical nirvana.