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Also I don't understand why f***ing Army, the most boring song I have ever heard is the next single. Surely 'Something In The Way You Move' would be a much better choice?!
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I agree Army is pretty bland compared to the rest of the album. Scream It Out is the better ballad imo.
There seems to be no consistency/cohesion to this album or whatsoever. It's just like a bunch of average to semi decent songs all with different stylings tacked together.

 

Not a bad album but it feels like she has lost herself, and it lacks personality.

I couldn't disagree more, it's a massively coherent pop album! The only song that seems like an outsider is Lost and Found seeing as it's quite folky but even then it makes sense somehow.

 

Potential singles:

 

Something in the Way You Move

Around U

Codes

Holding On For Life

Don't Panic

Keep On Dancin'

 

Can't go wrong really.

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I seriously love this album so much, this is pretty much all I've played the last few days with a bit of Little Mix here and there. :wub:

I seriously love this album so much, this is pretty much all I've played the last few days with a bit of Little Mix here and there. :wub:

Same here! Well, minus the Little Mix part. I'm really pleased by this album and even the tracks I wasn't too keen on at first have grown on me more and more. The only track I find awful is Don't Need Nobody.

Wow! Was not expecting to be SLAIN this much with this! *.*

 

My favourites in no particular order:

 

Lost and Found

Codes

Holding On For Life

Scream It Out

Don't Need Nobody

Winner

Don't Panic

Something In the Way You Move

And of course, Love Me Like You Do :wub:

 

Didn't expect to be enjoying this as much as I did. Definitely my favourite album of hers. Not sure why she's chosen Army as the next single when there's so many better songs to choose from though :unsure:

Imagine if she released this when LMLYD was peaking :o . She would have been a big contender of the US number one for sure if she did that, given the fact they count TEA and SPS towards their album chart. I'm not worried at how little it's selling in the UK at the moment because Ellie has always been more of a long-runner with her albums so it's doing okay. The album is very long-winded though and incredibly same-y, Halcyon will always remain superior to her.
Great album.

 

08 Aftertaste

10 Something in the Way You Move

08 Keep On Dancin'

09 On My Mind

09 Around U

09 Codes

07 Holding On For Life

10 Love Me Like You Do

04 Don't Need Nobody

08 Don't Panic

09 We Can't Move to This

09 Army

08 Lost and Found

08 Devotion

09 Scream it Out

 

Plenty of those 9s could become 10s. So much quality here. Don't Need Nobody is total crap mind you, but the bonus tracks more than make up for it.

Cannot believe I ever rated Holding On For Life a 7. It's my new fave. WHAT A BANGER!

i tried to resist however this album is so good that i need to... here is my rate :lol:

 

~(Standard~

06.0 | Intro (Delirium)

09.0 | Aftertaste

09.5 | Something In the Way You Move

09.5 | Keep On Dancin'

09.0 | On My Mind

09.0 | Around U

10.0 | Codes

08.5 | Holding On For Life

10.0 | Love Me Like You Do

09.5 | Don't Need Nobody

09.0 | Don't Panic

08.0 | We Can't Move To This

09.0 | Army

09.5 | Lost and Found

11.0 | Devotion

09.0 | Scream It Out

~(Deluxe)~

08.0 | The Greatest

10.0 | I Do What I Love

08.5 | Paradise

07.5 | Winner

08.5 | Heal

 

how anybody can say this album is a "sell out" album baffles me; there are plenty of classic ellie songs on here - i do what i love, paradise, lost and found, aftertaste & we can't move to this to name a few. i would call this album a progression, after all due to her explosion into pop superstardom over that last two years or so she would have garnered the opportunity to work with bigger producers and writers, which would naturally mould her sound into a more 'mainstream' version of itself. best album of the year - no questions asked. :heart:

 

 

Cannot believe I ever rated Holding On For Life a 7. It's my new fave. WHAT A BANGER!

 

Hold on, you pretty much ridiculed me for suggesting 'Something In The Way You Move' is better than 'On My Mind' but then rated it higher.

Hold on, you pretty much ridiculed me for suggesting 'Something In The Way You Move' is better than 'On My Mind' but then rated it higher.

Ridiculed you? Where are the receipts?

 

Something... was the biggest grower of all.

It's a good album, but like the lead single "On My Mind", nothing special and just quite empty and not interesting. I'll be surprised if this has longevity like her first two albums.

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It's a good album, but like the lead single "On My Mind", nothing special and just quite empty and not interesting. I'll be surprised if this has longevity like her first two albums.

 

why would it be at all surprising for delirium to have some sort of longevity? first of all there will almost indefinitely come a re-release at some point in the near future *que dark delirium*. second of all who on earth would've thought that halcyon's miserable descent down the chart following it's release was the quiet before what was virtually an ellie goulding storm? especially with figure eight criminally flopping and i know you care making absolutely no impression on the chart whatsoever.

 

with army due as the second single and already having reasonable promotion lined up (she's performing it on children in need, no?), i fail to see why - specifically over the winter months - why it won't be at least as big as on my mind; following this... codes? aftertaste? keep on dancin'? devotion? there are at least 8 or 9 other songs on the album that could be big hits for ellie. if she plays her cards right (or rather, her team plays their cards right which they are typically pretty good at) i honestly think that this album could be at least a bright lights-sized success.

 

i don't know whether i'm looking at this campaign through rose-tinted glasses but i just can't see this flopping, i mean delirium is already set to sell 40k+ in its debut week with only what has thus far been branded as a "weak" comeback single to promote it.

22 tracks?!!! Seriously?

 

And she ALWAYS re-releases so I dread to think how long 'Delirium: The Never-ending Hysteria Edition' is going to end up being when it's released next year. And then of course the super-deluxe version in 2019 tagging on a handful of soundtrack appearances and 2 years worth of Calvin Harris demos to leave us with a mammoth 48 hour listen.

 

Devotion, We Can't Move To This and I Do What I Love are so good!
22 tracks?!!! Seriously?

 

And she ALWAYS re-releases so I dread to think how long 'Delirium: The Never-ending Hysteria Edition' is going to end up being when it's released next year. And then of course the super-deluxe version in 2019 tagging on a handful of soundtrack appearances and 2 years worth of Calvin Harris demos to leave us with a mammoth 48 hour listen.

 

In the US she's released an even longer version of Delirium, with 25 tracks included on the Target CD! :lol: That sounds like a massive chore to me. Great for her biggest fans, I suppose.

Anything over about 14 tracks is too long, unless they are all short tracks. That's part of the reason I'm yet to indulge.

Judging these on first listen. She's in my top 3 artists of all time, so I'm going in with high hopes!

 

11 Aftertaste - WHAT AN OPENER.

08 Something in the Way You Move

09 Keep On Dancin'

08 On My Mind

08 Around U

10 Codes

10 Holding On For Life - This is not a sell out? This is a reinvention. It is lyrical depth with an amazing production backing and hypnotic vocals?

10 Love Me Like You Do

08 Don't Need Nobody

07 Don't Panic

09 We Can't Move to This

10 Army - As an Ellie fan since the beginning I completely understand why this is the second single. It is stunning. It's a touch of Halcyon that fits like a glove on this album.

09 Lost and Found

08 Devotion

09 Scream it Out - WHERE IS THE DUD IN THE ALBUM GUYS????!??

 

Sell out, why? Why do we classify up-tempo and pop productions as sell-out. If anything, it is the most competitive place to be in, if we are comparing any genre? This is not chart talk, this is music talk. Ellie pulls it off better than most of our most beloved pop artists? Her lyrics still hold amazing lyrical depth. So, I see it as a shallow review of music within itself. You are judging a song having hooks by being shallow? I don't follow that at all. We especially hold these standards on female singers. Stop putting people in boxes.

 

I could see if she came out the gates with a track like 'Womanizer', 'Pokerface', or most of all something like 'Single Ladies' or 'Drunk On Love'. This is pop music catered to an adult audience. Ballads do not equal maturity. There is not ONE single second of cheap thrills? Or are you counting the fact she shows her abs on the cover? I'm clutching at straws here guys.

 

On first listen, this is the best album I've heard since 'Blackout', and that's my favorite album of all time.

 

Stunning. Brilliant. Bravo Ellie.

MY ONLY COMPLAINT.

 

The '(Intro) Delerium', should have just been called the beginning of 'Aftertaste' it is what builds it into being one of the best records she has recorded. I can see this whole album being my favorite album of all time. :wub:

 

I'm overreacting, but it's been such a long time since intelligent mainstream pop music, that is upbeat has infiltrated the pop stratosphere. Especially in America.

 

'Something In The Way You Move' has already graduated to 10/10 status. I couldn't take in all its brilliance on first listen. Those production layers. :wub:

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