Tag Archives: Ellie Goulding

Culchie Calling Cards - Gigs - November 29 - December 05 2010

  By Will | December 1, 2010 - 11:01 pm | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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This late gig guide is brought to you by the letters S and W and the repeated phrase, “No”. GIGS Ellie Goulding plays Tripod, Dublin on Tuesday November 30th. Ellie Goulding is something of a darling in the music press. She meets the wonderful people, and remixes of her songs are a delight. The thing, for me at least is, her collaborations sound better than the source material. Her lyrics (those that talk obliquely about sleeping around and and those that pin-point the love-hate relationship every leaver has about their home town) are poetry of emotion. Her tunes flip between dance-until-you-drop euphoria and mellow space-folk. What stops her being great is her instinct for production. When others produce her, its sublime, but her own (or her usual producer’s) instincts on how she should sound just aren’t there. And its these instincts that are most likely going to follow her on … There’s more →

Music News: Itteh Bitteh Hipster Kitteh’s Weekly Roundup

  By johnmfinn | June 2, 2010 - 9:17 am | Music
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New Releases Windsor for the Derby exist “in a world of slow movements” and “represent slow music”. I don’t know what that means but I swear to God that’s what they say in the press release. They even put the slow in quotation marks. Maybe they play all their songs at half speed, maybe they take a while to grow on you or maybe they just aren’t that bright, you can decide which kind of “slow” they are when they release new album ‘Against Love’ on June 18th. Here We Go Magic were formed “through a series of chance encounters, overheard conversations and supernatural occurrences.” Their first release was a “collection of unique 4-track recordings” and they have developed “an explosive live sound all of their own.” Honestly of those last two sentences I find the one that contains “supernatural occurrences” easier to believe but we’ll find out when ‘Pigeons’ … There’s more →

Review: Ellie Goulding - Lights

  By Lisa McInerney | April 11, 2010 - 1:24 am | Featured Post, Music
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Not so long ago, I wrote a review of Marina and The Diamonds’ debut album, The Family Jewels, in which I raved on in a manner that would have made Shaun Ryder blush. I had a reason for gushing, though; I was a fan for some time before the album was released, so witnessing her pretty, quirky demos moulded into kick-arse gorgeous songs was something of an emotional Event. It was on the back of this (almost overwhelmingly) positive experience that I came to Ellie Goulding‘s debut album, Lights, which was released in March. It turned out to be no good thing. Comparisons between the two are hard to resist. Ellie and Marina are both young, sweetly eccentric singer-songwriters, lauded breathlessly as future pop icons - Ellie was named as BBC’s Sound of 2010, with Marina coming second place. And they happen to be, like, totally bezzie mates as well. … There’s more →