Flux finds the vocalist working with producers Jim Elliot and Joe Kearns, while the emotional piano-led ballad follows last year's collaborative single with Diplo and Swae Lee, Close To Me.
It arrives with a Rianne White-directed black and white video which matches the track's minamilist production. Goulding explained:
"Flux is a song that I wrote entirely from the heart that seemed to capture how I felt about not ever being able to let go of a past love, even though it was over for a reason. I feel like I am in a constant state of change and upheaval and it makes me unable to root myself and get over things easily. On this record I found myself taking inspiration from different relationships and stages in my life.
The past two years have been the first time I've really been able to confront my survival techniques throughout my work - to be able to reflect on how being on tour non stop, performing, and having to be "ok" all the time affected me as a human being and how it took its toll on my relationships."
Goulding is yet to announce her fourth album, the follow up to 2015's 'Delirium'.
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