Clocking in at 16 tracks, Delirium contains a strong handful of potential singles, but each track complements the surrounding songs it’s a proper pop album that serves as a likely chart-topping pop play without losing any of Goulding’s artistic integrity in the process. “Keep On Dancin'” skews darker, swaddling Goulding’s vocals in the murky harmonies put together by producer and cowriter Ryan Tedder. Lead single “On My Mind” presents longing as obsession, reflected through funky dancehall-sampling fractals. (A reissue of the latter, dubbed Halcyon Days, arrived in 2013.)ĭespite those many successes, Goulding has long lurked just outside the confines of pop’s elite, a barrier she’ll likely break through (with ease) with Delirium, which dives into glitchy dance-pop without sacrificing the lived-in intimacy of her songwriting. If you’ll recall, the 28-year-old English singer performed at the Royal Wedding in 2011 (covering Elton John’s “Your Song”), headlined a sold-out 2014 gig at Madison Square Garden (another show at the historic venue will follow next summer), and maintains a high-profile friendship with Taylor Swift (she played Destructa X in the 1989 star’s “Bad Blood” video) - all thanks to her signature breathy vocals and the nearly three million in sales racked up between the pop star’s two full-length albums, the 2010 breakout Lights and 2012’s broken-hearted Halcyon. Produced almost entirely by certifiable Top 40 legends Max Martin and Greg Kurstin, the LP marks Goulding’s most tangible play for superstardom yet, the culmination of a few years’ worth of ascending the music industry’s ranks. Ellie Goulding phones SPIN from the backseat of a cab en route to a photoshoot, the latest in a series of promotional appearances for her upcoming (and uplifting) third album, Delirium, out November 6.
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