Lights (Ellie Goulding album)

Lights
Studio album by Ellie Goulding
Released 26 February 2010 (2010-02-26)
Recorded 2008–09
Genre Indie pop, electropop, synthpop, folktronica
Length 36:51
Label Polydor
Producer Fred Falke, Frankmusik, Liam Howe, Ash Howes, Ben Lovett, Fraser T. Smith, Richard "Biff" Stannard, Starsmith
Alternative covers
Bright Lights cover
US edition and Canadian re-release cover
Singles from Lights
  1. "Under the Sheets"
    Released: 9 November 2009
  2. "Starry Eyed"
    Released: 21 February 2010
  3. "Guns and Horses"
    Released: 16 May 2010
  4. "The Writer"
    Released: 8 August 2010
Singles from Bright Lights
  1. "Your Song"
    Released: 12 November 2010
  2. "Lights"
    Released: 13 March 2011

Lights is the debut studio album by English recording artist Ellie Goulding. It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2010 by Polydor Records. Produced by Starsmith, Frankmusik, Fraser T. Smith and Richard Stannard, the album received mostly positive reviews from music critics. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and spawned four singles: "Under the Sheets", "Starry Eyed", "Guns and Horses" and "The Writer". The album has since sold more than 620,000 copies in the UK.

The album was re-released on 29 November 2010 as Bright Lights, including six brand-new tracks. It has so far produced two additional singles, those being a cover of Elton John's "Your Song" (which went on to become Goulding's biggest hit to date in the UK, reaching number two) and the title track "Lights". Following the re-release, the album saw a surge in sales in both the UK and Ireland. On 8 March 2011, the album was released in the United States featuring three songs that were previously not available on the original version, but were included on the Bright Lights reissue.

Contents

Background

Goulding dropped out of a degree programme at the University of Kent after two years in order to pursue her musical career; she explained to BBC News Wales that "I'd entered a university talent contest and was spotted by some people in the audience".[1] She signed a record deal with Polydor in September 2009.[2] However, Goulding opted to release lead single "Under the Sheets" on independent label Neon Gold Records so she would not be under pressure.[1]

Goulding explained that the album "is made up of songs that all started on a guitar over a period of about two years. A number of the songs vent romantic victories and failures." She revealed that the first song she ever wrote, "Wish I Stayed", is featured on the album.[3]

She met chief producer Starsmith after moving to Bromley, London from her home in Hereford. In an interview, she explained, "Meeting Starsmith was a godsend. We're like brother and sister. We fight a lot but you can't get anywhere without creative tension."[1]

Recording

Goulding worked with producers Starsmith, Frankmusik, Fraser T. Smith, Richard Stannard and Ash Howes; the majority of the album was recorded in the former's bedroom in Bromley, London.[4] She told the Daily Star that "though I write on guitar, I hear the entire sound of songs in my head. And Fin [Starsmith] is someone who understands."[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (64/100)[5]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [6]
The Daily Telegraph [7]
Drowned in Sound (6/10)[8]
The Guardian [9]
The Independent [10]
musicOMH [11]
NME (6/10)[12]
Pitchfork Media (6.8/10)[13]
Rolling Stone [14]
Spin (7/10)[15]

Lights was met with positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 64, based on 18 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[5] Neil McCormick from The Daily Telegraph praised the "lush electro-dance production of Starsmith" saying it "evokes a gushing, breathless rush of heady emotion that might have benefited from at least a dash of restraint and intimacy."[7] Mike Diver from BBC Music described the album as "an expectations-passing collection that should see fans of the singer's material to date elevating her to superstar status—perhaps not Gaga league, but certainly the equal of the current solo female du jour, Florence Welch." He added that "ballads like 'The Writer' and 'I'll Hold My Breath' retain the glossy attraction of singles 'Under the Sheets' and 'Starry Eyed'" and cited "Wish I Stayed" as "the album's skilfully sound-scaped highlight, percussively brutish but comely of light keys."[16] In a review for Allmusic, Matthew Chisling commented that the album "is something of relevance; it lacks the dramatic crash and bang of Florence and the Machine's Lungs, but is certainly a more restrained, compelling listen than the debut records by Pixie Lott and Little Boots." He further commended Goulding for her ability to "take the best parts of all of her contemporaries' styles and create pleasantly surprising records."[6] The Fly magazine's Camilla Pia raved: "Packed full of sparkling pop with a folky heart and an electronic edge, the debut is ridiculously infectious; swooping choruses and lyrics of all-consuming love and losing it sticking in your head from first listen."[17]

The Independent critic Andy Gill noted that "despite the occasional furtive flourish of acoustic guitar, her work on this debut album is more akin to the retro-synthpop of Little Boots and La Roux, thanks to the thoroughness with which production partner Fin Dow-Smith has smothered her folkie origins under a welter of busily cycling synths and programmed beats."[10] Stephen Troussé wrote for Pitchfork Media that "[o]utside of its immediate context, Lights is a sometimes great, always promising debut. It's an album about leaving home, and it works best when the contrast between the folk singer and the pop production chimes with the tensions between the pull of home and the allure of the city."[13] Jody Rosen from Rolling Stone remarked that Goulding "has a classic British folkie's voice—the kind of tremulous soprano that evokes a wintry day on a fog-swaddled moor. But Lights places her vocals and minor-key melodies against producer Starsmith's club-ready mix of synths and brisk, busy electro rhythms. The results are moody [...], pretty [...] and uniformly catchy."[14] Spin's Caryn Ganz referred to the album as "[s]hiny, wholesome dance-pop, with a dash of saucy" on which Goulding "glides through blippy anthems [...], pumping disco [...], and delicate grooves [...] with a pixie-ish voice that's one notch sweeter than Metric's Emily Haines."[15] Michael Cragg from musicOMH argued that "[f]or the most part, the strength of the songwriting should keep the doubters at bay, Goulding and producer Starsmith concocting a heady mix of skyscraping choruses, twinkling beats and Goulding's elastic vocals."[11] Claire Allfree of Metro viewed the album as "undeniably pretty aerated synth-pop but Goulding's girly, heartfelt voice is oddly depthless, while the electronic vapour and four-to-the-floor house beats swoop in a wash of perfectly calibrated bland sound", though there was praise for "Starry Eyed" ("pulsingly pert") and "The Writer" ("a lilting melodic hook").[18] However, The Guardian's Alexis Petridis took a dislike to the album saying it provides "just general acoustic singer-songwriter material."[9] Mark Beaumont from the NME was not impressed either, stating that "there's nothing here groundbreaking enough to justify the critical frothing. It's largely straight-ahead folk-pop dappled with a mild ground-frost of sequenced beats, Auto-Tune, and synth sizzles."[12] David Renshaw of Drowned in Sound believed that "Lights sounds like a naïve folk album given a blog house remix" and that "[d]evoid of a true soul or sense of honesty Lights can be a pretty hollow listen."[8]

Chart performance

Lights debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart for the week of 7 March 2010, selling 36,854 copies in its first week.[19] The following week, the album fell out of the top ten to number sixteen, dropping for the next five weeks.[20] It remained on the chart until late October.[20] Following the release of Bright Lights in November, the album re-entered the chart at number twenty-four.[20] It ended 2010 as the twenty-sixth best-selling album in the UK,[21] having sold nearly 300,000 copies as of late November 2010.[22] In January 2011, the album returned to the top ten, and continued there for six weeks.[20] Following Goulding's performance at the reception party of Prince William and Catherine Middleton's wedding on 29 April 2011, the album returned once again to the top ten on 8 May after an absence of thirteen weeks, jumping from number twenty-three to number ten on sales of 11,981 units.[23] As of November 2011, it has sold over 620,000 copies in the UK.[24] In Ireland, Lights debuted on the Irish Albums Chart at number twelve on 4 March 2010.[25] After the Bright Lights re-release, the album entered the Irish top ten for the first time, attaining a new peak position of number six on 24 February 2011.[26] Elsewhere, the album reached number eight on the European Top 100 Albums,[27] number twenty-eight in New Zealand,[28] number thirty-five in Norway,[29] number thirty-eight in Greece,[30] number forty-two in Germany,[31] number fifty-four in Belgium[32] and number ninety in Switzerland.[33]

In the United States, where Lights was released on 8 March 2011, the album debuted at number 129 on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Heatseekers Albums chart on the issue dated 26 March 2011.[34] After leaving the charts, it re-entered the Billboard 200 in May 2011 following a string of US performances, including Saturday Night Live, reaching a new peak of number seventy-six on 28 May.[35] On the same issue date, the album also reached number fifteen on the Digital Albums chart.[36] In Canada, it debuted at number seventy-six on the Canadian Albums Chart on 12 May 2011, peaking at number sixty-six the following week.[37]

Singles

"Under the Sheets" was released as the album's lead single on 9 November 2009, reaching number fifty-three on the UK Singles Chart.[38] Follow-up single "Starry Eyed", released on 22 February 2010, peaked at number four,[38] ultimately becoming the UK's thirty-ninth best-selling single of 2010.[39] "Guns and Horses" was released on 17 May 2010 as the third single from the album,[40] and charted at number twenty-six in the UK.[38] "The Writer", the fourth single, was released digitally only on 8 August 2010, reaching as far as number nineteen on the UK Singles Chart.[38]

Goulding's cover of Elton John's 1970 classic "Your Song" was released as the album's fifth single on 12 November 2010, also serving as the lead single from the Bright Lights re-release.[41] The song entered the UK chart at number thirty-nine just two days after its digital release.[38] It became Goulding's highest-peaking single to date on the UK chart, reaching number two in its third week. It was the thirtieth best-selling single in the UK for 2010.[39] The song was featured in the John Lewis Christmas 2010 TV advert in the UK.[42] "Lights", which was originally available only as a bonus track from iTunes, was released as the album's sixth single on 13 March 2011,[43] peaking at number forty-nine in the UK.[38]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Guns and Horses"   Ellie Goulding, John Fortis Starsmith 3:35
2. "Starry Eyed"   Goulding, Jonny Lattimer Starsmith 2:56
3. "This Love (Will Be Your Downfall)"   Goulding, Starsmith Starsmith 3:53
4. "Under the Sheets"   Goulding, Starsmith Starsmith 3:44
5. "The Writer"   Goulding, Lattimer Starsmith 4:11
6. "Every Time You Go"   Goulding, Fortis, Starsmith Starsmith 3:25
7. "Wish I Stayed"   Goulding Frankmusik 3:40
8. "Your Biggest Mistake"   Goulding, Fraser T. Smith Smith 3:25
9. "I'll Hold My Breath"   Goulding, Starsmith Starsmith 3:45
10. "Salt Skin"   Goulding, Starsmith Starsmith 4:17

Personnel

  • Ellie Goulding – vocals (all tracks); acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 3–10); piano (track 8)
  • Seye Adelekan – backing vocals, acoustic guitar (track 2); electric guitar (tracks 3, 6)
  • Beatriz Artola – engineer (track 8)
  • Stevie Blacke – live strings (track 5)
  • Alan Clarke – photography
  • Joe Clegg – drums (tracks 5, 6)
  • Frankmusik – producer, engineer, keyboards, backing vocals, programming (track 7)
  • Matt Hill – drum engineer (track 6)
  • Julian Kindred – drum engineer (track 5)
  • Charlie Morton – backing vocals, additional acoustic guitar (track 4)
  • Naweed – mastering
  • Fraser T. Smith – producer, keyboards (track 8)
  • Starsmith – producer, keyboards, drum programming (tracks 1–6, 9, 10); bass (tracks 1–5, 9, 10); saxophone (track 9)
  • Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (tracks 2–6, 8–10)
  • Traffic – design
Bright Lights
  • Ellie Goulding – vocals (all tracks); guitar (track 11); acoustic guitar (tracks 13, 18); mandolin (track 13)
  • Rob Blake – original producer (track 16)
  • Richard Edgeler – mixing assistant (tracks 12, 14, 16)
  • Fred Falke – producer, keyboards, drum programming (tracks 14, 16); bass (track 14); guitar (track 16)
  • Liam Howe – producer, engineer, mixing, programming, instrumentation (track 13)
  • Ash Howes – producer, mixing, drums, keyboards (track 11)
  • Crispin Hunt – guitar, keyboards (tracks 14, 16); original producer (track 16)
  • Matt Lawrence – engineer, mixing (track 17)
  • Ben Lovett – producer, piano, backing vocals, kick drum (track 17)
  • Steve Malcomson – programming (track 11)
  • Naweed – mastering
  • Richard "Biff" Stannard – producer, mixing, bass, keyboards (track 11)
  • Starsmith – producer, programming, acoustic guitar, bass, electric guitar, backing vocals (tracks 12, 15)
  • Traffic – design
  • Scott Trindle – photography
  • Ruth de Turberville – cello, backing vocals (track 17)
  • Jeremy Wheatley – mixing (tracks 12, 14, 16)
  • Matt Wiggins – timpani (track 17)

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2010–11) Peak
position
Australian Hitseekers Albums Chart[48] 4
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[32] 54
Canadian Albums Chart[37] 66
European Top 100 Albums[27] 8
German Albums Chart[31] 42
Greek Foreign Albums Chart[30] 38
Irish Albums Chart[26] 6
New Zealand Albums Chart[28] 28
Norwegian Albums Chart[29] 35
Scottish Album Chart[49] 6
Swiss Albums Chart[33] 90
UK Albums Chart[20] 1
US Billboard 200[35] 76
US Heatseekers Albums[50] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2010) Position
UK Albums Chart[21] 26

Release history

Country Date Label Edition
Ireland[51] 26 February 2010 Polydor Standard
Netherlands[52] Universal Music
Sweden[53] 1 March 2010
United Kingdom[54] Polydor
Canada[55] 2 March 2010 Universal Music
Poland[56] 26 March 2010
Italy[57] 9 April 2010
Australia[58] 16 April 2010
Germany[59] 14 May 2010
Poland[60] 7 July 2010 Bright Lights
United Kingdom[61] 29 November 2010 Polydor
Germany[62] 21 December 2010 Universal Music
Canada[63] 8 March 2011 Re-release
United States[64] Cherrytree, Interscope Standard

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The Fame by Lady Gaga		 UK Albums Chart number-one album
7 March 2010		 Succeeded by
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