Lights
| Ellie Goulding
Lights
Lights is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding. Commercially, it debuted atop the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 36,854 copies. In North America, Lights charted at number 21 in the United States and at number 66 in Canada. Four singles were released from the album: "Under the Sheets", "Starry Eyed", "Guns and Horses" and "The Writer". - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
But at its best Lights feels remarkably uncontrived, cantering across genres, following personal whims and visions rather than marketing agendas.
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Rolling Stone
Can a folk warbler be a pop diva? The debut album by singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding proves that the answer is yes.
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Consequence of Sound
Overproduce it with generic beats and walls of sound that remove the artist’s musical identity.
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The Guardian
Quite normal is exactly how you'd describe Lights.
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Independent
Much of Lights is infused with issues of self-esteem and infatuation, transformed by the electropop arrangements from folksy introspection to mechanical expressions of emotional turmoil.
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BBC
Expect Goulding to be the last one standing at 2010’s poll-winners’ party.
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Drowned in Sound
There is angst and longing in Goulding’s voice and hushed delivery that lends itself far better to the battered acoustic guitar and plaid shirt wearing world than she can ever contribute to the sparkle and glamour of FM pop music.
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Music OMH
For the most part, the strength of the songwriting should keep the doubters at bay.
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All Music
Goulding is able to take the best parts of all of her contemporaries' styles and make them her own, coating everything in the breathy flutter of her voice.
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Outline
Her voice is her special combat move; the introversion with occasional bursts of choral confidence is her calling card.
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The Cambridge Student
Too much of Goulding's debut album Lights seems a little too familiar.
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The Scotsman
Her one-girl-and-guitar roots are virtually unrecognisable in the sanitised radio fare.
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MUU Muse
Lights is a buoyant, fluttery album complete with ten numbers that flow together effortlessly, all tied together with Goulding’s signature child-like warble.
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The Northern Advocate
Lights is an album you can listen to anytime without getting sick of it too quickly.
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Pop Matters
Lights sounds incomplete and inconsistent, and doesn’t work as a whole.
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ROCKHAQ
It is an impressive debut album by Ellie Goulding because she lives up to the words of critics.
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Daily Echo
Lights is a relaxing album full of soft lyrics.
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The Telegraph
The hype is justified with Ellie Goulding's Lights.
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The Guardian
Lights is pretty enough – but hardly golden.
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NME
She may be gathering plaudits, but her debut doesn't quite win the glittering prize.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
it's a predetermined experiment crafted with maximum expediency.
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Express
The voice is nice but it’s not clear why she didn’t come up with a couple more songs and a totally fresh album.
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Red Brick
This is easy-listening pop, with nothing gripping or cutting-edge about it.
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Culch
Middle-of-the-road, uninspired festival of meh.
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Belfast Telegraph
Her lyrical fascination for stellar metaphors provides a link of sorts between her folk and synth-pop sides.
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Graphic
Goulding is truly an astonishing artist who should not be overlooked by anyone.
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RTE
She hasn't brought us the fascinating journey that the hype promised, but 'Lights' is a decent pop album.
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The Beat Review
It kind of settles in between Amazing and Good.
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Irish Times
Goulding – who writes most of her own songs – is a precocious talent.
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Metro
Ellie Goulding fails to live up to the hype.
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