In late 2016, Ella Henderson wrote on Instagram that she had finished making her second album. Here it is. “Now I know good things take time,” she sings on Take Time, one of a few new songs that seems to reference the reasons for the wilderness.
Something must have been seriously amiss for the 26-year-old from Lincolnshire to fail to capitalise on a spectacular first go around the block. At just 16 she was a favourite to win The X Factor in 2012, coming sixth behind eventual winner James Arthur but scoring a record deal with Simon Cowell’s Syco label all the same. Both her bombastic debut single, Ghost, and her debut album, Chapter One, went to number one, with Ghost also achieving platinum sales in the US.
