Ellie Goulding will release her third studio album ‘Delirium’ on November
6th on Polydor Records. ‘Delirium’ is the follow-up to 2012’s
‘Halcyon’, which cemented Goulding’s status as a global artist.
‘Delirium’ is the sound of an artist at the top of her game. “A part
of me views this album as an experiment – to make a big pop album,” she
says. “I made a conscious decision that I wanted it to be on another
level.”
It has been a whirlwind few years for the singer from Herefordshire. Since
the release of her debut ‘Lights’ in 2010, she has sold over 20 million
records, had two Number One albums, won two Brit Awards and had Vevo views and
streams both in excess of one billion. This year’s ‘Love Me Like You Do’
single, meanwhile, was a worldwide Number One hitting the top spot in
70 countries and breaking the record for the most streamed song in one week.
Some artists might be inhibited about where to go after such success but
Goulding had no doubts: make everything bigger, better and braver.
‘Delirium’ is an expansive pop album that reflects its globe-spanning
creation. It was written and recorded in London, Herefordshire, Sweden and Los
Angeles. Goulding worked with Max Martin, Greg Kurstin, One Republic’s Ryan
Tedder, Klas Ahlund and Disclosure’s Guy Lawrence as well as long-time
writing partner Jim Eliot in crafting the defining album of her career, a
jubilant and euphoric pop statement. Songs such as ‘Devotion’, ‘On My
Mind’, ‘Don’t Panic’ and ‘Don’t Need Nobody’ are monumental
anthems that retain a personal intimacy: epic tracks with a heart and soul. That
balance is displayed most devastatingly on Army, a track written about her best
friend Hannah. The album features 16 tracks, with an additional 6 on the
deluxe version. ‘Delirium’ is the work of an artist who is seizing her
moment, and has never sounded more assertive and in control.
The album title felt to Goulding like it was the word that summed up
everything she’d been through to get to this point. “It can be describing a
really happy, crazy state, or it can be the complete opposite. I’m constantly
in a state of delirium,” she says. ‘Delirium’ feels like the culmination
of all Goulding has experienced. It is the sound of someone taking the triumphs
and heartbreaks and fears and joys and channeling them into something powerful
and mesmerizing. It’s a talent only the most gifted of artists can reach.
Ellie Goulding keeps finding new levels to strive for.