“It does feel good to have an album that-albeit I wrote a long, long time ago-is a body of work that I believe in.” On her At Home With interview with Zane Lowe, the British pop singer-songwriter talks about dissecting herself as a form of therapy, stepping outside her comfort zone as an artist, and having Craig David sing at her 2019 wedding. “It is a lot of me on this one, which was really important to me,” Goulding tells Apple Music. Goulding should trust herself more: she might need more ego, but she doesn’t need EG.0.Ellie Goulding is eager to release her upcoming album Brightest Blue soon-even with everything that’s going on in the world.
True, her say-what-you-see lyrics are still too pedestrian seas remain dark and stormy, lines between opposing things are thin. The slower songs of part one are best, particularly the three-punch combo of Bleach, Flux and Brightest Blue, the last delivering an indelible chorus over pillowy synths and delicate harmonies. Goulding usually prefers to appear unthreatening and relatable rather than demand adoration, and that doesn’t change here, but her quality control has improved. EG.0 she oddly labels her “confident side”, even as she shelters in other people’s starlight. The first half is “vulnerable side” Brightest Blue, while the much shorter addendum EG.0 offers a symphonic overture and modish hits with Swae Lee and the late Juice WRLD. This is British pop queen Ellie Goulding’s first thirtysomething album – and her first set in five years – and it’s awkwardly divided into two unequal parts, one with 13 songs, the other with five. L ike footballers and boxers, pop stars have careers that rarely get better in their 30s, the exhilaration of youth collapsing into middle-aged mediocrity, experience elbowed aside by promise.
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