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Jul 17, 2020“Brightest Blue” is the Ellie Goulding album that, from start to double-album finish, shows she’s as soulful, tight and mighty a brand as any.
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Jul 23, 2020Brightest Blue's main disc is Goulding's deepest emotional journey yet, a triumph of empowerment and self-discovery.
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Jul 16, 2020Brightest Blue is an album of sleekly produced, emotional gushing electropop elevated by Goulding’s vocals.
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Jul 16, 2020Side A listens more personal and vulnerable, whereas side B, named EG.0, allows the pop goddess within to let rip.
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Jul 16, 2020A confident return from an artist now comfortable in who she is.
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Jul 16, 2020In short, it feels like Ellie Goulding at her most honest, and her most heartfelt.
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Jul 16, 2020While EG.0 holds Goulding's mainstream radio hits, it's Brightest Blue that has evolved Ellie Goulding as a songwriter. She's created two distinct spaces on this record, which allows her to continue her musical evolution while simultaneously maintaining her pop throne as pop royalty.
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Jul 22, 2020While Blue is thoughtful and beautiful, it’s a drag to sit through. The interludes have more personality than the full-length songs.
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Jul 20, 2020True, her say-what-you-see lyrics are still too pedestrian; seas remain dark and stormy, lines between opposing things are thin. Yet the music often soars. Goulding should trust herself more: she might need more ego, but she doesn’t need EG.0.
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Jul 21, 2020For 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.
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Positive: 248 out of 286
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Mixed: 15 out of 286
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Negative: 23 out of 286
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Jul 17, 2020Ellie after a long time is back to her roots with this beautiful mix of her first 3 albums.
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Jul 17, 2020