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Ellie Goulding: Brightest Blue review – caught between confident and vulnerable – The Guardian

Goulding’s first album since 2015’s Delirium is undermined by its tacked-on guest spots

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Like 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. This is British pop queen Ellie Gouldings first thirtysomething album and her first set in five years and its awkwardly divided into two unequal parts, one with 13 songs, the other with five. The first half is vulnerable side Brightest Blue, while the much shorter addendum EG.0 offers a symphonic overture a…

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