In the new Billboard interview she says that EG3 will be out by the end of this year no matter what!!! She also says some of the producers she's been working with and Max Martin is one of them! At first I didn't want that, but after hearing 1989, I think he could make really good tunes with Ellie. Can't wait!
http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...ers-of-a-crazy
Can you talk about what direction the new album is going in?
I don't really know why this word seems appropriate but it's definitely bigger. Whether that means it's more adventurous, or a bit more ambitious, or a bit more daring, I don't know. But I'm certainly taking on something a lot bigger than I have before and sonically it's a lot bigger. I feel like there were maybe certain restrictions on the last album. But I'm at a point now with this album where it's just taken on a new life now of its own and I can't stop it. So that album is coming out and what people make of it I don't know, but it is coming. It's nearly finished and it will be out this year. Even if it's out on 30 December, which is my birthday, it will be out this year.
In addition to Laleh, who else are you writing with on the album?
I've worked with Diplo. I've worked with producers that I have known for years – Jim Eliot from my last album. I love working with him. I thought the stuff that we did together was something really special, so I had a 'you don't fix what isn't broken kind of attitude.' He's just wonderful and I got to go back to my home town [Hereford], which helps the writing process a lot. But then also I've been adopted into the Max Martin camp and I love them all dearly.
Not some Halcyon Days generic mess