Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding is a complicated thing in a seemingly simple package. On first hearing, she's a bright and shiny 22 year old singer-songwriter, with her fingers on her guitar, her feet in a night-club and her head in the heavens. But very few singer-songwriters, young or old, can flip between dance-til-you-drop euphoria ("Starry Eyed") and wistful, journeying space-folk ("Guns and Horses"), between lyrics that talk obliquely about sleeping around ("Under The Sheets") and those that pin-point the love-hate relationship every leaver has about their home town ("Wish I Stayed"). Very few can do all that and leave us, the listeners, with enchantment, curious romance and, somehow, a sense of...

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