Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Negative: 1 out of 10
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  1. Jul 21, 2020
    30
    For the most part, she doesn’t have the chops or soul of contemporaries like Florence Welch, who sings of similar subject matter with a real torch, and who shares a collaborator in Joseph Kearns, who produced almost every song on Brightest Blue. At Kearns’s behest, the album takes a relatively new tack for Goulding, trading the garish for the palatable, but it’s no less grating as a result.
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 286 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Negative: 23 out of 286
  1. Jul 17, 2020
    10
    Ellie after a long time is back to her roots with this beautiful mix of her first 3 albums.
  2. Jul 17, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Boring beat. No emotion and really weak lyrics, every song is a boring overproduced mess of generic pop Full Review »
  3. Jul 17, 2020
    10
    If you've heard her previous works, you can realize how much her writing has evolve. Brightest Blue contains lyrics more mature and honest.If you've heard her previous works, you can realize how much her writing has evolve. Brightest Blue contains lyrics more mature and honest. Favorites so far include Start, How Deep Is Too Deep, Flux & title track Brightest Blue. Full Review »