Ellie Goulding has announced her sixth studio album ‘I Know Too Much’. Find all the details below.
The singer is set to release the 10-song record on September 4, following on from 2023’s UK Number One ‘Higher Than Heaven’. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.
“Making this album allowed me to bring everything together honestly, like journaling through music, a collection of songs that represent a certain time in my life,” Goulding explained.
“I have always loved exploring different sounds and tempo. The album came about from the idea that maybe we can know too much, freedom comes from the ease of not knowing…”
The pop artist will share the lead single from the forthcoming LP, ‘Black Prada Dress’, this Friday (June 5). She debuted the song during her slot at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Sunderland last month.
In 2025, Goulding dropped the empowering single ‘Destiny’, and appeared on the song ‘Save My Love’ with Marshmello and Avaion. The full tracklist for ‘I Know Too Much’ is yet to be revealed.
The singer is expected to showcase new music when she appears on Later… With Jools Holland this Sunday (June 7).
Speaking to NME late last year about her upcoming fresh material, Goulding said: “This is probably the most honest I’ve been in my lyrics. I don’t have anyone to answer to. In certain situations, you’re trying to please someone, but for the first time ever, I don’t feel like I have to do that. I’m just making music that I love.
“It’s a really liberating feeling I have at the moment. The songs aren’t too on the nose or mainstream, but they’re also not too unusual. It’s all just really freeing and different.”
She also told us: “Back before I signed a record deal, I was just writing songs, letting them come out naturally and not thinking too much.
“To be honest though, I still really have nothing to lose because I’m always doing projects that indulge me, like classical music, electronic, and dance, plus I still get to write pop songs that are really appealing to me.”
Goulding reflected on how ‘Destiny’ had been inspired by the heartbreak and lingering questions that arose in the wake of her divorce, explaining: “It was a marriage, not just a relationship. I didn’t know what else to do other than make music.
“This was the first time I’d heard a track in this era of my life that seemed to just spell out acceptance and surrender of what had happened, rather than indulging myself in a really sad song that would’ve just continued to break me.”
At the start of this year, Goulding celebrated being honoured with an MBE by sharing praise for the women working on climate protection.
NME gave ‘Higher Than Heaven’ a four-star review, noting that it “may not be strictly personal, but it definitely sounds like an album crafted with care, skill and no small amount of flair”.
In 2024, Goulding reunited with Calvin Harris for another collaborative track, ‘Free’, which followed the pair’s chart-topping hit ‘Miracle’ from the previous year.