Ellie Goulding - Lights album review scores and more

Description: 2010 debut record from the new sweetheart of British Pop. With her unique blend of Folk influences and Electronica she is already a firm favorite amongst tastemakers and bloggers alike. Lights features 10 songs, including the singles 'Under The Sheets' and 'Starry Eyed'. Her chief collaborator is Fin Dow-Smith, AKA the Electro-don Starsmith, who produced the majority of the tracks on the album and co-wrote four of them. Ellie's songs are built around big proper tunes that lift you up and spin you round, yet there's something off-center about them, something sparkly, filmic, haunting, odd. She mixes heartfelt emotion with other-wordly atmospherics, spins cool Electronica into dreamy warmth. Her insistence on putting her guitar in every track, whether an acoustic cover or a gorgeous song about new love gives her soaring Electro-Folk an earthed rootedness.
Based on 15 critics - Overal Score:  60/ 100
Review Scores

Critic	Rating
TheTimes	40 out of 100
TheIndependent	60 out of 100
Telegraph	80 out of 100
Uncut	80 out of 100
Q Magazine	80 out of 100
Sputnikmusic	70 out of 100
Pitchfork	68 out of 100
NME	60 out of 100
Drowned In Sound	60 out of 100
musicOMH	60 out of 100
Hot Press	60 out of 100
PopMatters	60 out of 100
Dot Music	50 out of 100
Mojo	40 out of 100
The Guardian	40 out of 100

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Singles

- "Under the Sheets" was released as the album's lead single on 9 November 2009, reaching number fifty-three on the UK Singles Chart.
- "Starry Eyed" was release as a follow up single on 22 February 2010, peaked at number four, ultimately becoming the UK's thirty-ninth best-selling single of 2010.
- "Guns and Horses" was released on 17 May 2010 as the third single from the album,[24] and charted at number twenty-six in the UK.
- "The Writer" the fourth single, was released digitally only on 8 August 2010, reaching as far as number nineteen on the UK Singles Chart.
- "Your Song" Goulding's cover of Elton John's 1970 classic was released as the album's fifth single on 12 November 2010, also serving as the lead single from the Bright Lights re-release. The song entered the UK chart at number thirty-nine just two days after its digital release. It became Goulding's highest-peaking single to date on the UK chart, reaching number two in its third week. It was the thirtieth best-selling single in the UK for 2010. The song is featured in the John Lewis Christmas 2010 TV advert in the UK.
- "Lights" originally only available as a bonus track from iTunes will serve as the album's sixth single.