Emma's Imagination: Stand Still – review

(Polydor)The new Ellie Goulding, if one were required, could be Dumfries songwriter Emma Gillespie, who won last year's Sky1 talent show Must Be the Music. Though more folkily inclined than Goulding, Gillespie is similarly sweet and placid – it's hardly startling that her favourite band is Coldplay and she'd never heard of Björk till recently. Two of the tracks here, This Day and Focus, have already been in the Top 10, but most people would be hard pressed to remember anything about them, lea...

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