The 24-year-old British singer Ellie Goulding has all the physical makings of a pop starshes blonde, has an airy, glamorous voice, likes to wear sparkles. Fortunately, shes also a talented songwriter. Some of the songs on Gouldings debut full-length, last years Bright Lights, reveal her beginnings as an acoustic guitar-playing singer/songwriter, but the more exciting songs are her forays into electronic synth-popthe ecstatically Autotuned Starry Eyed, the breathless and sexy Lights (the Bassnectar remix of that song is even more thrilling). The tunes are busy, beat-happy, and club-ready, and Goulding is a highly spirited and sensual performerthe slow emotions of folk music never would have been able to contain her level of dynamic energy for long. With The Knocks. ERIN K. THOMPSON
Mon., April 11, 7 p.m., 2011