Is that a lisp? How many tricks has she got in that magic girl singer bag of hers?įrank Kogan: Folkie who puts the sort of little-girl breathless-with-wonder voice that I hate more and more the more people use it is tossed into a British dance subgenre that Lex knows the name of, I’m sure, one of those that surrounds voices with miniature wavelets of passion and gently slithering beats and locates poignance in many better singers than Goulding and manages to locate poignance in her, too. And then her voice is a bit vulnerable and she even uses an accent. Pete Baran: Ooh, it goes backwards, stuttering, and seems uncomfortably high pitched. There’s almost no detectable song, though, and the singing style is soon wearing. This one sings in what seems a mannered, even childish, cutesy tone, but the music is skilled, with some likeable vocal layering.
Martin Skidmore: Another British electro-pop female. There’s not too much to sink your teeth into here, but what more could you reasonably ask from anything this fine and frothy but a meringue? The barely-there butterfly kiss of a hook provides gentle and charming support for Goulding’s sweetly effervescent voice. It’s not just Goulding’s breathy, lightly inflected, up-on-the-last-syllable singing style that begs the comparison there’s also the rambling, cutesy-poo lyrics and the gently humanistic evocation of new love’s giddy first week. John Seroff: Nothing betrays a lazy American music critic quite like labeling a Euro songbird as “sounding like Björk” but MAN, does this EVER sound like “Venus As a Boy”-era Björk.
I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).