The debut album by Ellie Goulding is set to become one of 2010's essential releases.Inspired by Frankmusik, produced by Starsmith and endorsed by Jools Holland, Ellie is a bright star in the would of electrontic music.Already having toured with Little Boots in 2009, Ellie Gouldings career is off to a flying start.Discover her emotive and beautiful music - an album that is all killer, no filler.The BBC's winner of their SOUND OF 2010 Award and The BRITS AWARD for Critics Choice.The 22 year old Hereford-born singer songwriter was first brought to public attention when she appeared on Later with Jools Holland in November last year, prior to the release of her first single. With her unique blend of folk influences and electronica she was already a firm favourite amongst tastemakers and bloggers alike, but it was this stunning early appearance that brought her to the fore. In December she was named winner of the Brits Critics Choice Award which she'll collect live on stage at the Brits on February 16th. It was then announced she had topped the hugely influential BBC Sound of 2010 list.'Lights' features ten tracks, including debut single 'Under The Sheets' and new single 'Starry Eyed', which is released on February 22nd. Her chief collaborator is Fin Dow-Smith, aka the electro-don Starsmith, who produced the majority of the songs on the album and co-wrote four of them. The two hooked up originally through Myspace whilst Ellie was studying drama at the University of Kent, and something between them clicked. "When Fin came along it was like we were brother and sister," she says. "Though I write on guitar, I hear the entire sound of songs in my head. And Fin is someone who understands, who can really help me make that sound." Most of the album was recorded in Fin's bedroom in Bromley. Another key influence on her sound was Frankmusik, who produced the track 'Wish I Stayed'.Ellie's songs are built around big proper tunes that lift you up and spin you round, yet there's something off-centre about them, something sparkly, filmic, haunting, odd. She mixes heartfelt emotion with other-wordly atmospherics, spins cool electronica into dreamy warmth. Her insistence on putting her guitar in every song, whether an acoustic cover (she's done some amazing covers of Passion Pit's Sleepyhead, Wolves by Bon Iver and Roscoe by Midlake) or a gorgeous song about new love gives her soaring electro-folk an earthed rootedness.Ellie is rapidly gaining a reputation for her impressive live performances, with four star reviews appearing in The Telegraph, Independent, Times, Guardian and Evening Standard amongst others.