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8.0
9498
8.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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8.0
9554
8.0 |
The Fly
Goulding has well and truly proved herself here.
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8.0
9588
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Ellie Goulding has an extraordinary voice, a fluttery, high vibrato, multi-tracked here to magical effect on compact pop songs of angst and romance
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8.0
10589
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Ms Goulding certainly knows and holds the key to the much desired formula of 'How to write a perfectly satisfying pop song'
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6.8
9799
6.8 |
Pitchfork
At its best Lights feels remarkably uncontrived, cantering across genres, following personal whims and visions rather than marketing agendas
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6.8
9800
6.8 |
Pitchfork
At its best Lights feels remarkably uncontrived, cantering across genres, following personal whims and visions rather than marketing agendas
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6.0
9493
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Ellie Goulding is a lost sheep, a girl who should be falling in and out of love whilst learning all she can from people like Feist, Regina Spektor and Joni Mitchell. Instead she is put in uncomfortable looking dresses and made to do dance routines
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6.0
9512
6.0 |
The Independent
The layers of vocal counterpoints in "Starry Eyed" confirm Goulding's singing ability, but it's debatable whether it's shown to best advantage here
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6.0
9522
6.0 |
music OMH
Approaching Lights in the hope that you'll discover a brave new talent striking out against the blinkered Radio 1 playlist will prove fruitless. At its most prosaic ... it resembles Dido with a more four-to-the-floor backing
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6.0
9551
6.0 |
NME
You’d love to credit her with the alt.kudos of being a 21st century St Etienne, but she’s simply too eager to rub glittery shoulder-pads with Fergie out of Black Eyed Peas
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6.0
9563
6.0 |
Evening Standard
When it works, as on the thundering Guns and Horses, she sounds like a thrilling hybrid of Cerys Matthews and Kate Bush
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6.0
9580
6.0 |
The Observer
The signifiers of pop quality are all here but Goulding's feathery voice makes everything sound a little inconsequential
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6.0
9710
6.0 |
State
With so much great music doing the rounds and so much potential, the Sound of 2010 simply shouldn’t be a middle of the road sound
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6.0
11156
6.0 |
Pop Matters
Six of the ten tracks are great collaborations, and the other four are not. As a result, Lights sounds incomplete and inconsistent, and doesn’t work as a whole
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6.0
23052
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
There's darkness here. And lots of sex
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5.0
9598
5.0 |
Independent on Sunday
The Goulding I want to hear is one who's hidden herself away for a couple more years and come up with something 20 times as interesting as Lights
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5.0
23210
5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Most of what makes Goulding’s work appealing, such as her voice and instrumentation, is lost underneath generic synthesizers that turn these songs into standard pop fare
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4.0
9496
4.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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4.0
9566
4.0 |
The Times
...this sort of craven playlist pandering holds up about as well as a soufflé in a snowstorm
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4.0
9661
4.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
With the possible exception of Salt Skin it is all alarmingly insubstantial
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4.0
11249
4.0 |
Sydney Morning Herald
These are radio hits for the totalitarian at heart
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