XXV

Robbie Williams, one of Britain’s biggest pops stars of this century, or any other, returns to the hits that got him there for his next album. The pop veteran’s 13th studio album XXV is a career-spanning collection of his big numbers, reworked with Metropole Orchestra of the Netherlands. As its title suggests, XXV is a nod to the quarter century that has passed since Stoke-On-Trent’s favorite lad released his debut album, Life thru a Lens. Though Williams never scaled great commercial heights in the United States, he can fill arenas and stadiums across Europe and in Australia, and he’s a phenomenon in his homeland, where he has bagged 13 solo No. 1 albums and seven best-selling singles. All but one of his studio albums topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart (2009’s Reality Killed the Video ...