Ellipse by Imogen Heap

Ellipse, Imogen Heap's third studio album, arrived in 2009, and it was made about as close to home as a record can be. After a writing trip around the world, she finished it at her childhood house in Essex, turning her old basement playroom into a studio; the album is named for the house's elliptical shape.

The title leaked online on 23 April and she confirmed it on Twitter two days later. It came out on 24 August in the UK on Megaphonic and on 25 August in North America through RCA and Epic. The music is intricate, electronic and intimate, layered voices and glittering textures wrapped around songs that feel like diary pages. "First Train Home" was the single, the album reached the top five of the Billboard 200, and it won the Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, an award only one woman, Trina Shoemaker, had taken home before her.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.