Ellie Goulding Describes Her New Album as “Least Personal” Yet

Ellie Goulding at the RockCorps photocall in 2018
Ellie Goulding at the RockCorps photocall in 2018. Photo by Masatoshi Okauchi/REX/Shutterstock (9842881h)

Our favorite artists tend to get pretty personal when writing new music, but Ellie Goulding opted for a different approach with her new album. She described her upcoming LP Higher Than Heaven as her “least personal” yet and said it was a relief to approach it this way.

In a recent interview with The Rolling Stone, the British hitmaker said she wanted her new album to be completely different from its predecessor Brightest Blue.

“In the best possible way, this album wasn’t taken from personal experiences, and it was such a relief and really refreshing to not be sitting in the studio going through all the things that happened to me and affected me,” Goulding told The Rolling Stone.

When she announced this record back in October, the singer revealed it was written during the COVID-19 pandemic, and “nobody wanted to sit and agonize over some relationship or some drama” after all the darkness they went through in the past two years. She also described it as an album “about being passionately in love.”

Higher Than Heaven will hit the shelves on April 7, and its release was preceded by singles “Easy Lover”, “All by Myself”, “Let It Die”, “Like a Saviour”, and “By the End of the Night”.