Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Album Review: Halcyon


 Halcyon

By: Ellie Goulding



       Ellie Goulding is a fantastic artist. She became a big hit in America after her single 'Lights'. Which is also featured on her album, Halcyon, as a bonus track. Ellie Goulding grew up in England and is a relatively new artist in the music industry. So far in her music career she has been quiet successful. She has done songs for some major motion pictures such as 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' and 'Divergent'. Goulding topped the music charts in both England and America. She also preformed for Prince William and Catherine Middleton at their wedding reception. Overall in the short time that Ellie Goulding has been singing professionally, she has had great success and is a very talented artist.

     Ellie Goulding has had great success in her music career so far and this album was no different. Halcyon is a very emotional album full of both ups and downs. To begin, the first few songs start off very dejected and sorrowful but slowly the begin to show glimmers of hope in the lyrics, such as in the songs 'I Know You Care', 'Burn', 'Goodness Gracious', 'Halcyon' and 'Figure 8'. All of these songs begin to help the albums dreary mood to start to show more feelings of renewed hope and happiness.

     Halcyon is defiantly a must to listen to album. The songs in the album send out a very powerful emotional message. The album was very well made and is a very beautiful piece of musical genius created by Ellie Goulding. Goulding defiantly put a lot of effort into this album to influence her listeners, and to also touch them with her music so that they can understand how she feeling. By makes her listeners feeling that even if things aren't looking so good it doesn't mean that things won't get better, it helps Goulding to really reach that level of understanding with them. Especially as your outlook on different situations becomes more and more hopeful and optimistic.

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