Whereas Halcyon may have required several listens to grow on you, Delirium grabs you with immediately hooky, danceable tracks like 'Something in the Way You Move,' 'Keep on Dancin',' and 'Don't Need Nobody.' Some of the more R&B-leaning cuts like the Police-meets-Rihanna single 'On My Mind' seem at first like an odd fit for Goulding's highly resonant, throaty chirp of a voice. Halcyon also benefited from a similarly collaborative approach, but Delirium feels less distinctly personal, bigger in scope, and brimming with a pressurized commercial energy. Helping Goulding to achieve this are a handful of uber-pop producer/songwriters, including Sweden's Max Martin (Britney Spears, Taylor Swift) and Carl Falk (One Direction, Nicki Minaj), Savan Kotecha (Ariana Grande, One Direction), Greg Kurstin (Sia, P!nk), and others.

While Delirium isn't devoid of this electronic atmosphere, it's somewhat more mainstream in its tone, and finds Goulding expanding her sonic palette with a melodically catchy set of more R&B-infused songs. Goulding's previous effort, 2012's Halcyon, was a hypnotically ambient, lightly experimental album that balanced catchy pop hooks with textural electronic soundscapes. Buy the album Starting at kr210,99īritish chanteuse Ellie Goulding returns with her highly anticipated third studio album, 2015's expertly produced Delirium.

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