Ellie Goulding gained her first fame with the first place in the influential BBC list 'Sound of 2010'. In the same year she also won the Critics Choice Award at the prestigious Brit Awards. The British taste police hit on its first songs, which classified Goulding with the folktronica - a combination of (British) folk music and modern electropop. Now the mixture with the singer / songwriter from
… the town of Hereford was at best 10% folk-90% electronics, but that pinch made debut album (2010) just enough distinctive. It ended up in first place in her homeland, but apparently Goulding didn't go fast enough, because after successor (2012) she opted for unadulterated hit parade pop à la . That line is now being continued at Delirium. We already knew the hit Love Me Like You Do from the film Fifty Shades Of Gray, but - just like about twelve other songs - it has as little body as the now 28-year-old singer on the cover. Thirteen-in-a-dozen doll from a once-promising artist. (RME).more
