It is a powerhouse pop track that doesn’t try to cater to trends, but sounds quintessentially like the Goulding fans know from her previous albums, rather than from the radio hits she had. ‘Love I’m Given’, the track Goulding and her team are pushing as a single in the New Music Friday playlists on Spotify, has an even more explosive chorus on which Goulding shows off some rawer edges to her vocals. The production is perfection with a heavenly little break down after the first chorus. This moody mid tempo electronic tune about a partner with commitment issues, is one of the poppiest moments of the records at the same time with a bright and instant chorus. The British pop star reunites with producer Starsmith, with whom she worked on most of her debut record Lights, on the song How Deep Is Too Deep. The tune sets the tone for a more adventurous journey than the trend chasing trap beats of most of the singles on EG.0. Over piano, Goulding reflects about times of recovery and having to start over in life while the experimental nature of the track unfolds towards the end when a trippy beat kicks in. The album kicks off with the reflective and understated ‘Start’, featuring serpentwithfeet.
Goulding co-wrote the vast majority of the tunes on Brightest Blue together with Joseph Kearns, who also (co-)produced most of the songs. They found a solution however: Goulding gets to release her Brightest Blue with an EP titled EG.0 tagged along, which features the streaming hits of the past two years. Where Goulding was creating an album that exists in the same world as her second album Halcyon (her most accomplished work to date), her label seemed to have pushed for hiphop-infused singles to bring in the streams, with tracks like ‘Hate Me’ with Juice Wrld and ‘Worry About Me’ featuring Blackbear that don’t fit with the sound Goulding was creating. When she returned to the studio, the route she took did not seem to be the one her label envisioned for her. After releasing and touring with her previous record Delirium (2015), she decided to take a step back for a while. Ellie Goulding’s Brightest Blue underlines the discrepancy between her GP-presence and artistryĮllie Goulding’s road to her fourth album Brightest Blue wasn’t an easy one.
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