![]() 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.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |