Four Tet and Ellie Goulding link up on new single ‘In My Dreams’
“He’s totally unique, totally perfectly inconsistent and looks beyond genre,” Goulding said of her collaborator Kieran Hebden.
Four Tet and Ellie Goulding have collaborated again on a brand new single – listen to ‘In My Dreams’ below.
Goulding first worked with Kieran Hebden on the track ‘Baby’ from the producer’s 2020 album Sixteen Oceans, with him going on to produce a Grammy-nominated rework of her track ‘Easy Lover’ two years later.
Speaking of her creative relationship with, and admiration of, Hebden, Goulding said: “Most of you know I grew up on electronic and dance music and discovering Four Tet in my early 20s was like diving into a treasure chest.
“When I reached out to him a while back he never questioned it or had any kind of cynicism and just asked me to send him some vocals sometime. The simplicity of a great producer like Kieran sampling my voice like an instrument weaved in is something I always craved and even in the most minimal way is how I felt I was getting the maximum pleasure out of what I do as a vocalist.”
She added: “[I] feel like so many producers missed that about me, that’s why I appreciate him so much. I also feel like so many of those same producers wana be him and I get why! He’s totally unique, totally perfectly inconsistent and looks beyond genre, sweeter structures, prettiness and straightforwardness in sound, but still makes any kind of frenzy sound so beautiful, puts serenity at its most blissfully potent and loves a pop sample too.
“Thank you for your music and for working with me Kieran, sometimes I do feel like I’m a little part of actual works of art x.”
Of the new collaboration, Four Tet added: “She’s told me in the past she likes to send me vocals that I can just use as sound and turn into whatever I want (which is how the track ‘Baby’ happened a few years ago).
“I found other sounds to go with it and made ‘In My Dreams’. She added some new vocal parts but we ended up keeping the voice note recordings as the main vocal. I guess the first take is often the most magical.”