Yes Davidson stan Garden that is one of my personal favorites I don't think I have seen much love for it so I am glad I am not alone :wub:

It's hard to know what extent I like this album to. Obviously the Holy Trinity of 'Hotter Than Hell', 'Blow Your Mind (Mwah)' and 'Be the One' are all incredibly good pop songs, but everything else is lacks that same punch and vary from pretty good to complete bore fests. It doesn't help that the tracking list feels like it's in a total mess; there's just little to no flow between the tracks and I don't feel like I'm being taken on a audible journey.

 

I like 'Genesis', 'Lost in Your Light', 'Garden', 'New Rules', 'Begging' and 'Room For 2' so, including the three aforementioned singles, that's a good chunk of the album, but when you consider there's 17 tracks in total, that's a lot of songs also left dotted in between the good moments which drags the album down. Maybe I need to re-imagine the tracking list with the songs I like and see if that improves the album as a body of work rather than a load of songs chucked together.

I've been listening to this quite a bit lately, so I feel like doing a rate

 

07.0 Genesis

07.5 Lost In Your Light This has grown on me quite a bit, but I still don't love it

09.5 Hotter Than Hell

09.0 Be The One

09.0 IDGAF

08.0 Blow Your Mind (Mwah)

08.5 Garden

06.5 No Goodbyes

07.0 Thinking 'Bout You

09.5 New Rules

10.0 Begging I didn't realise how much I liked this :wub:

05.0 Homesick

07.5 Dreams

08.5 Room For 2

06.5 New Love

09.0 Bad Together

10.0 Last Dance

 

Such a strong album tbh

Edited July 15, 20178 yr by BridgeCow

Sounds a lot like Ella Henderson on quite a few tracks, but with better/more 'contemporary' songs.

I like it.

01 Genesis

02 Be The One

03 Hotter Than Hell

04 Blow Your Mind (Mwah)

05 Lost In Your Light

06 Garden

07 Scared To Be Lonely (Joe Mason Remix)

08 New Rules

09 Last Dance

10 Homesick

11 Begging

12 Bad Together

13 No Goodbyes

 

I think this is a much stronger track listing for the album, it feels much more coherent like this for me but still feels quite varied.

Not including 'Room For 2' is unacceptable

Room for 2 hasn't clicked with me at all yet I'm afraid!

It's lyrics hit close to home for me, so I guess that helps. The chorus is so soothing, I adore it.

The lack of IDGAF is more concerning to me </3 I don't *much* care for Room For 2 either :(

Not including 'Room For 2' is unacceptable

This!!

The lack of IDGAF is more concerning to me :(

IDGAF is an odd one for me, I particularly like the bridge but then the chorus absolutely kills any love I have for it... I'm not keen on it lyrically and the way she delivers it just doesn't work for me. I can however see why it would appeal to some people on here, it wouldn't actually surprise me if she went for it as a single either.

Edited August 13, 20177 yr by dandy*

The success of New Rules makes me wonder if they will get another single out of this album. I would personally love a re-release of Last Dance or Thinking Bout You to be made a single

The only choice for me is Homesick with X Factor performance, at a push I suppose they could do Begging but I think Homesick and then era over.

Last Dance re-release pls

 

Also so thrilled at New Rules truly SMASHING the charts <3

I'd be happy with a Last Dance re-release <3

I'd want to see Dreams, Bad Together, Genesis or Begging. I don't want another re-release tbh.

Genesis, Bad Together or even IDGAF could be potential singles I think if they really wanted to continue the campaign.

 

It might be worth trying one more single anyway with a potential #1 on the way.

Last Dance is the only song left that has the potential to smash

Edited August 13, 20177 yr by John-James

This is such a good album! Only listened to it twice a few months apart and there is not one song I dislike. Hopefully we have at least one more single to come as their is still a good few songs that should be picked.

I think this is my album of the year, at first I was like "oh all this wait for that", just because of the 84 pushbacks really, but a lot of the songs were slowburners for me, plus Hotter Than Hell and New Rules are undoubtedly two of the best pop songs of recent years. It's such a fab debut album, she has her hands in a few pies but they're cohesive and similar enough to taste delicious altogether as a package.

 

I'd be happy with Last Dance as I said as a re-release but there are other opportunities for something not yet released, I think Homesick with an X Factor perf would be ideal actually, great idea. That, Genesis, IDGAF or Bad Together seem like obvious choices and they may as well go for something else given New Rules has been huge, to sell more albums, esepcially as she'd probably be in time for an XF slot by the time NR dies down and there's a video out for the next single etc.

 

Also, I was thinking it'd be fab if she was on a massive dance banger #1 with Clean Bandit or Calvin Harris to tide us over to the next era too *.* Ik we had Scared To Be Lonely but that was future bass, imagine her on something like the Calvin remix of Spectrum by Florence & The Machine or Symphony or Tears or Rockabye by Clean Bandit?! *.*