Kanye West, The National and Ellie Goulding team up for Global Citizen album

Kanye West, The National, and Ellie Goulding are among the first artists announced to contribute to Metamorphoses, a forthcoming compilation album from Global Citizen.

Spearheaded by Mumford & Sons Ben Lovett and Global Citizen co-founder and CEO Hugh Evans, the project will include 12 new songs with crowd-sourced lyrics from around the world.

The Global Citizen project aims to end extreme poverty by 2030, as well as tackling climate change.

The National’s Aaron Dessner spoke about the project in a press release.

"We project, setting the words of others to music and bringing communities together to fight poverty. Global Citizen is doing very important, pro-social work and we are honored to be able to contribute to it."

Ben Lovett also expounded on the project:

“The artists involved in this project are some of the most genuine artists the world has to offer. Artists like Kanye West, and The National are doing something globally important that is touching people down to their DNA. And these masterfully creative people are going to be interpreting incredible submissions from people across the globe. It has been a joy reading all of the submissions we received over the past six months. I’m truly excited to see what we will create together”.

Lyrical submissions are open until March 31, ahead of the record's release this fall.

Watch a trailer below.