Artist: Ellie Goulding   Album Title: Delirium   Genre: Pop   Release Date: 6 November 2015   Buy It: iTunes Deluxe | iTunes Standard

Delirium is the eagerly awaited third album from British pop princess Ellie Goulding. The album includes the single On My Mind as well Outside, a collaboration with Calvin Harris on the deluxe version of the album (although also released on Calvin's album, Motion). The album shows Ellie's growth as an artist and therefore is fairly different to her previous album Halcyon Days - often the change in sound works, others not so much. I particularly like the introduction to the album using a sort of operatic tone to set the album, similar to Halcyon Days, before flowing into the first track on Delirium - Aftertaste. Aftertaste kicks up the tempo from the slow introduction into a much more upbeat and ultimately uplifting track - a theme throughout most of the album.
Something In The Way You Move is the first track on the album which falls into my favourite tracks. I think it's really catchy and makes you want to move around - that sums up everything I love about it.
Following on is my next favourite, Keep On Dancin'. It opens with quite a distorted sounding sample as well as quite calm and to a certain extent possibly seen as a bit eerie. The track then begins to build up before the climax and change of pace for the chorus - this momentum is then carried throughout the rest of the song. There is a brief section in the bridge in which the track slows again before returning once again to the faster pace that the listener has become used to.
Codes is possibly my favourite of the tracks on Delirium because it follows the upbeat, catchy and feel good theme throughout. I also particularly love the lyrics which add to the catchiness but also are relatable to lot of people when it comes to relationships and possibly even can be applied to friendships. I think Codes is the most upbeat track off the entire album - even when it slows from its usual speed, it's still quite upbeat.
Other tracks I particularly like on Delirium are; Holding On For Life and The Greatest.
Tracks that I'm not so keen on are; Around U, Don't Panic and I Do What I Love. I find these three tracks quite repetitive and therefore more annoying than any of the tracks. I Do What I Love is a track I definitely do not love, vocally and production wise it sounds so different and therefore doesn't work for me.
Overall, I really like Delirium but some tracks really let it down for me.

For this edition of themed playlists, I have decided to put one together of artists to watch (formally known as the up and coming artist series). The playlist includes artists that I have previously mentioned since running the series as well as others that I am yet to write about.
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