Imogen Heap

File:The Round House, Havering-Atte-Bower (2024).jpg called the Round House. She purchased it in 2006 and converted its basement into a recording studio.]]

Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap{{Cite web|title=Imogen Heap: Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/imogen-heap-mn0000094792/biography|access-date=19 January 2021|publisher=AllMusic|language=en}} was born on 9 December 1977{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Caspar Llewellyn |title=Imogen Heap: 'I've just done a poll with YouGov to find out about my fans' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/feb/23/30-minutes-with-imogen-heap |website=The Guardian |access-date=28 December 2020 |language=en |date=23 February 2012}}{{cite web |title=Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 6-12 |url=https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-celebrity-birthdays-patrick-bauchau-lindsay-price-james-naughton-5db02399f8e24bb43bb18b10f70c816b |work=Associated Press |access-date=27 December 2020 |language=en |date=30 November 2020}} in Romford, England.{{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=John |title=Imogen Heap - Ellipse |url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/imogen-heap-ellipse |website=MusicOMH |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=23 August 2009 |quote={{nbsp}}... but she could quite easily walk the streets of her native Romford unrecognised.}} She was named after British composer Imogen Holst, as her mother wanted Heap to become a cellist like Holst.{{Cite news|last=Williams|first=Andrew|date=23 October 2006|title=60 SECONDS: Imogen Heap|work=Metro|url=https://metro.co.uk/2006/10/23/60-seconds-imogen-heap-301429/|access-date=30 April 2008}} Her mother, an art therapist, and father, a construction rock retailer, separated when she was twelve years old.{{cite web |last1=Lynskey |first1=Dorian |title=Dorian Lynskey talks to singer Imogen Heap |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/mar/28/popandrock |website=The Guardian |access-date=11 February 2021 |language=en |date=28 March 2006}} Her maternal great-grandfather is the Scottish painter James Paterson, a figure in the Glasgow Boys art movement. Her brother also works with construction rocks and her sister, Juliet, worked as a surveyor; she died in November 2019 while abroad.{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Emma |title=Imogen Heap on 'unimaginable' life of Hide and Seek from The OC to Normal People |url=https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/27/imogen-heap-life-hide-seek-oc-normal-people-enigma-12766099/ |website=Metro |access-date=6 December 2020 |language=en |date=27 May 2020}} Heap was raised in the Round House, a Grade II* listed elliptical house in Havering-atte-Bower near Romford built in 1792; she later bought the house from her father when it was put on the market in 2006, converting its basement, which had been her play room as a child, into a recording studio called the Hideaway.{{cite web |title=Talking Shop: Imogen Heap |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8315306.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=20 October 2009}}{{cite web |last1=Hayes |first1=George |title=Grammy-winner Imogen Heap plans The Round House repair works |url=https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/24273723.grammy-winner-imogen-heap-plans-round-house-repair-works/ |website=Romford Recorder |access-date=27 May 2025 |date=24 April 2024}}{{cite web |title=This historic home turned residential studio can now be explored through its digital twin |url=https://matterport.com/blog/historic-home-turned-residential-studio-can-now-be-explored-through-its-digital-twin |publisher=Matterport |access-date=18 May 2025 |date=16 May 2021}} When she was one year old, she was diagnosed with osteomyelitis in her left leg. She played music from an early age, first learning to play her mother's piano at age two due to "wanting attention" as a middle child and realizing, according to her, that "it was something [she] could make a lot of noise with".{{cite web |last1=Kaufman |first1=Gil |title=Imogen Heap Gets Personal On Debut LP |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/400610/imogen-heap-gets-personal-on-debut-lp/ |website=MTV News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119092408/http://www.mtv.com/news/400610/imogen-heap-gets-personal-on-debut-lp/ |archive-date=19 January 2022 |date=16 July 1998}}{{cite magazine |last1=Barker |first1=Chris |date=Autumn 2009 |title=In The Studio: Imogen Heap |url=https://archive.org/details/FutureMusicAutumn2009/page/n27/ |magazine=Future Music |publisher=Future Publishing |access-date=1 December 2020 |issue=219 |pages=42{{hyphen}}48}} She has also stated that "everyone was playing music" in her family home growing up and that she rarely listened to the radio.

She did not enjoy playing the music of classical composers such as Bach and Beethoven, and would instead attempt to play in their style to convince her parents she was practicing their music.{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Michael |title=Imogen Heap |url=https://www.westword.com/music/imogen-heap-5091189 |website=Westword |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=7 December 2006}} As a child, she recorded music by recording herself playing piano on cassette, then recording herself again singing over it.{{cite news |last1=Moen |first1=Matt |title=Imogen Heap: 'I've Never Been Burdened by Fame' |url=https://www.papermag.com/imogen-heap-profile-2635198880.html?rebelltitem=49 |website=Paper |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=8 May 2019}} At around age 10, she composed Christmas carols for her school's choir. She soon began taking lessons and became classically trained in several instruments, including piano, cello, and clarinet, while attending Friends' School, a private, Quaker-run boarding school in Saffron Walden. She has stated that she was "everyone's worst nightmare" while there, spending much of her time smoking, drinking, and experimenting with drugs. She performed frequently at school recitals in order to avoid being punished for bad behavior.{{cite web |last1=Hiss |first1=Eric |title=Imogen Heap can reach for highest stars |url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/entertainment/local/1999/01/31/imogen-heap-can-reach-for/50548324007/ |website=The Standard-Times |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=30 January 1999}}

Due to being placed a year above children her age, Heap has stated she did not get along with many people from the school and spent most of her time in the music room practising piano. She stated, "In boarding school{{nbsp}}... I was mocked about the clothes I wore, the way I looked, whatever. People there really did regard me as some kind of freak from the middle of nowhere." Her music teacher, whom she has said considered her "really irritating", would send her to the school's music technology room as punishment, where she taught herself how to sample music. At age twelve, she also taught herself how to use Cubase on an Atari ST computer at Friends' School. By the age of thirteen, she had begun writing songs. At age fifteen, she started using reel-to-reel recording to record her music and using a home computer to program it. She eventually got expelled from the school after cursing at her matron but, as they needed her to perform at the end-of-year concert, lived with the headmistress and played piano for the rest of the year.

Heap started studying at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London at age 16 with plans to write orchestral music. There, she first began regularly singing and writing songs due to loneliness. There, she recorded her first song to feature her vocals, "Missing You", which was released on the BRIT School's Class of 1994 album and earned her attention from manager Mickey Modern after he saw her performance at a talent showcase. After being introduced to Nik Kershaw by Modern, Heap recorded demos which were taken to Rondor Music. A few months later, Heap signed her first record contract, aged 18, with independent record label Almo Sounds.{{cite web|title=ALMO Sounds on A&M Records.com|url=https://www.onamrecords.com/labels/almo-sounds|access-date=5 May 2012|work=ALMO Sounds History|publisher=Leslie J. Pfenninger|quote=Imogen Heap's demo was given to Jerry Moss who offered a contract with Almo Sounds. She signed with the label in April.}}

In 1996, Heap began working with British experimental pop band Acacia, which featured her future collaborator Guy Sigsworth. While never a full member of the band, she was a guest vocalist and contributed to various Acacia singles and album tracks.{{cite web |title=Imogen Heap |url= https://www.abc.net.au/rage/guest/imogen-heap/9649240 |website=ABC |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en-AU |date=16 June 2012}} Her first major live solo performance was as part of the line-up for the 1996 Prince's Trust Concert in Hyde Park, where she played in between performances by Eric Clapton and the Who.{{cite web |last1=Percy |first1=Shane |title=Music: Imogen Heap |url=https://www.dailyxtra.com/music-imogen-heap-21573 |website=Daily Xtra |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=24 May 2006}}

Heap's debut commercial single, "Getting Scared", was released in 1997 and included on the soundtrack for the 1998 horror film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.{{cite web |last1=Farrell |first1=Margaret |title=The 10 Best Imogen Heap Songs |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2022304/imogen-heap-best-songs-playlist-frou-frou/lists/ |website=Stereogum |access-date=30 November 2020 |language=en |date=9 November 2018}} She released her debut album, the alternative rock record I Megaphone, on 16 June 1998, through Almo, with its songs "Getting Scared", "Shine", and "Come Here Boy" released as singles in the United Kingdom. The record was made with several producers, including Sigsworth, Kershaw, Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, and David Kahne. It featured personal lyricism and critics compared it heavily to the works of fellow female singer-songwriters Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Alanis Morissette, and Fiona Apple.{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Joe |title=The Heap Treatment |url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/the-heap-treatment-520597 |website=Hot Press |access-date=4 May 2025 |date=22 April 2001}} She toured the album in the US and Europe from 1998 to 1999, though Almo cut funding for her tour in the UK and used the money to promote I Megaphone. I Megaphone received airplay on various American radio stations but was a commercial failure, as Almo did little to promote it. Soon after its release, Almo Sounds was acquired by Universal, forcing its artists to either move to other labels or be released. Heap was dropped from the label, leaving her without a record contract.{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/8061156/Imogen-Heap-fully-connected.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/8061156/Imogen-Heap-fully-connected.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Imogen Heap: fully connected |access-date=23 April 2016 |date=14 October 2010 |first=Naomi |last=West |work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}

During her time as an unsigned artist, Heap appeared on two singles: "Meantime", a track written by her former Acacia colleagues, Sigsworth and Alexander Nilere, for the soundtrack to the independent British film G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time,{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} and "Blanket", a 1998 collaboration with British hip hop band Urban Species. "Blanket" was Heap's first charting single, reaching number 56 on the UK Singles Chart.{{cite web |title=Urban Species featuring Imogen Heap |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/7471/urban-species-ft-imogen-heap/ |website=Official Charts |access-date=4 December 2020}} The song would later appear in a 2005 sex tape of Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst.{{cite web |last1=Golby |first1=Joel |title=Keep rollin': a look at Fred Durst's directorial 'masterpieces' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/27/a-look-at-fred-dursts-directorial-masterpieces-the-fanatic-john-travolta |website=The Guardian |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=27 August 2019}}

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File:Guy Sigsworth.jpg with record producer and frequent collaborator Guy Sigsworth (pictured in 2007).]]

In 2000, Heap and Sigsworth formed the electronic duo Frou Frou, with plans to record an album featuring a different singer, rapper, or poet on each song. She described the formation of the duo as "very organic and spontaneous". Heap also appeared as a featured vocalist on two songs{{em dash}}"Dirty Mind" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'"{{em dash}}from the 2001 album You Had It Coming by English guitarist Jeff Beck and on the American rock band Rustic Overtones' 2001 album ¡Viva Nueva!.{{cite news |last1=Harrington |first1=Richard |title=Jeff Beck: Still Moving Forward |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/03/16/jeff-beck-still-moving-forward/bf73c809-2ee8-4917-824d-382ff4b5b648/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=5 December 2020 |language=en |date=16 March 2001}}{{cite web |last1=Dillon |first1=Charlotte |title=Rustic Overtones Biography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rustic-overtones-mn0000218949#biography |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=14 May 2025}}

On 15 July 2002, Frou Frou released their first and only album, Details, through Island Records and MCA Records. She stated that the two had not planned on making a follow-up album at the time due to their both being "kind of free spirits". The lead single of Details, "Breathe In", was released to modern rock and college rock stations soon after the album's release, with a music video starring Robin Tunney. It was described as their breakout hit.{{cite web |last1=Hyman |first1=Nick |title=Imogen Heap: Speak for Yourself (RCA) |url=http://www.undertheradarmag.com/imogenheapreview.html |website=Under the Radar |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=11 May 2008}} The 2003 music video for their song "The Dumbing Down of Love" was directed by Joel Peissig and won the award for best video at RESFest.{{cite magazine |last=Keim |first=Adam G. |date=20 July 2002 |title=Passionate, Motivated MCA Duo Frou Frou Is Here to Make Changes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=5 May 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Bold |first1=Ben |title=Chocolate ad ripped off my video, says director |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jun/30/advertising |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=30 June 2005}} The album's song "Let Go", which was originally written for the 2002 film Phone Booth but did not end up being used, became one of the duo's most popular songs after being included on the soundtrack of Zach Braff's 2004 film Garden State, which was released through Epic Records in August of that year and won a Grammy Award.{{cite web |last1=Jacobs |first1=Matthew |title='You Gotta Hear This One Song': The Oral History of the 'Garden State' Soundtrack |url=https://www.theringer.com/2024/07/24/movies/garden-state-soundtrack-album-music-20th-anniversary-zach-braff |website=The Ringer |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=24 July 2024}}{{cite magazine |title=Shins, Iron & Wine Visit 'Garden State' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/shins-iron-wine-visit-garden-state-67236/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=22 July 2004}}{{cite web |last1=Galvin |first1=Peter |title=Speaking for herself |url=https://pridesource.com/article/speaking-for-herself |website=Between the Lines |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=12 January 2006}} Its appearance in the film led to an increase in record sales for Details and brought Frou Frou to a wider international audience.{{cite web |last1=Brodsky |first1=Rachel |title=How Shrek 2 Blew My Band Up |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/frou-frou-guy-sigsworth-shrek-interview-holding-out-for-a-hero.html |website=Vulture |access-date=6 May 2025 |date=12 April 2024}} By 2009, Details had sold 284 thousand copies.

For Drowned in Sound, Andy Thomas wrote in a review of Details that its songs were "good, if not overly ambitious" and "pleasant enough to do the washing up to".{{cite web |last1=Thomas |first1=Andy |title=Frou Frou: Details |url=http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/4372 |website=Drowned in Sound |access-date=4 May 2025 |date=15 July 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726032609/http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/4372 |archive-date=26 July 2008}} In a four-and-a-half out of five star review, Alex Henderson of AllMusic praised Details for its "attractive" production, "solid songwriting", and "expressive vocals".{{cite web |last1=Henderson |first1=Alex |title=Details Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/details-mw0000659189 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=5 May 2025}} Heap later said that Island Records "did an absolutely terrible job of marketing [Details]" due to being more focused on promoting Sugababes at the time.{{cite magazine |last1=Williams |first1=Sophie |title=Imogen Heap on Viral 'Headlock' Success, AI and Ariana Grande: 'There's a New Type of Energy This Time' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/imogen-heap-headlock-success-ai-and-ariana-grande-1235886471/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=29 January 2025}} The album sold poorly and Island dropped Frou Frou from the label but offered Heap a solo deal. She turned it down, stating in 2006, "If you had taken a shirt into a dry cleaners and they burned it, would you then go, 'Thanks very much. I'll bring in my other dry cleaning tomorrow'?" The two soon disbanded the group. Two years later, Chris Douridas, a DJ for KCRW and the music supervisor for the 2004 animated film Shrek 2, reached out to Sigsworth about recording a cover of Bonnie Tyler's 1984 song "Holding Out for a Hero" for the film. Sigsworth wanted Heap to sing on the cover and the two soon reunited as Frou Frou to record a rendition of the song, which appeared in the film's closing credits.

Heap recorded a rendition of the song "I'm a Lonely Little Petunia" for the seventh episode of the fourth season of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under, which premiered in August 2004.{{cite web |last1=Teti |first1=John |title=Six Feet Under: "The Dare" |url=https://www.avclub.com/six-feet-under-the-dare-1798181576 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en-us |date=6 August 2014}} Her rendition later appeared as the album closer for the 2005 soundtrack album Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends.{{cite web |last1=Dahlen |first1=Chris |title=Various Artists: Everything Ends: Six Feet Under OST Vol. 2 |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7896-everything-ends-six-feet-under-ost-vol-2/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=26 June 2005}} In September 2004, she performed at Time for Change, a benefit concert advocating for Americans living in the United Kingdom to submit absentee ballots for the 2004 United States presidential election.{{cite magazine |title=Poe, Hitchcock Rock For Votes |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/poe-hitchcock-rock-for-votes-66293/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=30 September 2004}}

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After Frou Frou were dropped from Island Records, Heap had accrued £10 thousand in credit card debt. She was denied bank loans due to not being employed and, afraid of signing another record deal, she remortgaged her flat in Waterloo, London to finance the making of her next studio album. Her property surveyor had been a fan of Frou Frou and offered to provide her the money she needed. Heap used the money to book a session to master the album one year ahead of its recording, to rent a studio at Atomic Studios in Bermondsey, London that had previously been used by Dizzee Rascal, and to purchase all of the equipment to make it.{{Cite web|title=Imogen Heap: Recording Ellipse|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/imogen-heap-recording-ellipse|access-date=19 January 2021|website=Sound on Sound}}{{cite web |last1=Davis |first1=Johnny |title=One woman band |url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/one-woman-band-vnngh22860r |website=The Times |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=3 June 2006}} Partly in response to her frustration with being considered "just the singer" in Frou Frou, Heap aimed to create the album without any outside assistance. She also maintained a blog on her website to chronicle the making of the album.

In May 2005, Heap released "Hide and Seek", the lead single from her forthcoming album, with a music video directed by Peissig. The song began gaining traction in the UK when it received praise from radio DJs Jo Whiley and Zane Lowe. It brought her to fame internationally after it was used to soundtrack the season two finale of the Fox teen drama television series The O.C. on the same day as its release; it was also included as the closing track of The OC Mix 5, a soundtrack album for the series released by Warner Bros. Records in November 2005.{{cite web |last1=Clarke |first1=Betty |title=Imogen Heap |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/feb/10/popandrock |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=10 February 2006}}{{cite web |title=The OC Mix 5 |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/09/29/the-oc-mix-5 |website=IGN |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=29 September 2005}} Its appearance in the series caused it to become especially popular on the iTunes Store and it peaked in the top-40 of the Billboard Digital Songs chart, eventually receiving a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).{{cite magazine |last1=Brandle |first1=Lars |date=10 November 2007 |title=In Synch: U.K. Labels Cross Atlantic For Film, TV, Ad and Game Placements |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xw4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21 |language=en |page=21 |magazine=Billboard |location=London |access-date=5 December 2020 }}{{cite web|title=Gold & Platinum|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=Imogen+Heap#search_section|access-date=3 November 2018|publisher=Record Industry Association of America}} A Saturday Night Live parody of the scene in 2007 that featured the song brought it to further prominence and made it into a meme online.{{cite magazine |last1=Zellner |first1=Xander |title=Hot 100 First-Timers: Imogen Heap Scores First Entry Ever, Thanks to 2005 Song 'Headlock' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/imogen-heap-headlock-hot-100-first-timers-1235880012/#:~:text=35%20on%20the%20Hot%20R%26B,21%3B%202014). |magazine=Billboard |access-date=7 May 2025 |date=21 January 2025}} It also received critical praise, with Kelefa Sanneh calling it "the best thing" on her second studio album for The New York Times and Margaret Farrell of Stereogum listing it as Heap's best song in 2018.{{cite web |author1=Sanneh, Kelefa |title=Reggae's Bootleg Respect and a Hit for the Text-Message Set |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/arts/music/reggaes-bootleg-respect-and-a-hit-for-the-textmessage-set.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=20 November 2005}} It went on to be sampled in the 2009 song "Whatcha Say" by American singer Jason Derulo, which topped the Billboard Hot 100.{{cite web |title=8 sampled tracks behind some of the biggest tunes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5M1LctGZFMR54Pp4SxflyfB/8-sampled-tracks-behind-some-of-the-biggest-tunes |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 December 2020 |language=en}}

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Heap self-released her second studio album, Speak for Yourself, through her newly-formed independent record label Megaphonic Records on 18 July 2005. The album was entirely written, produced, recorded, mixed, and arranged by her. Except for a guitar riff played by Beck on the album track "Goodnight and Go" and trumpet played by Arve Henriksen on several tracks, she also played all instruments on the album and designed its packaging and artwork. RCA Records later licensed the album to be released on 1 November 2005 in the US, where it peaked at number 145 on the Billboard 200 album chart in February 2006 and had sold more than 120 thousand units by May of that year, while Sony Records licensed its release throughout Europe.{{cite web |last1=Griffin |first1=Myles |title=Listen Up: Imogen Heap |url=https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2005/09/16/listen-up-imogen-heap/29770610007/ |website=Spartanburg Herald-Journal |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=16 September 2005}}{{cite web |title=Praise heaped on download diva |url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/praise-heaped-on-download-diva-20060502-ge28ey.html |website=The Age |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=2 May 2006}} By 2009, Speak for Yourself had sold 431 thousand copies in the US, where it was certified gold, and 39 thousand in the UK.{{cite magazine |last1=Caulfield |first1=Keith |title=Colbie Caillat's No. 1, Miley Crashes Party On Billboard 200 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/colbie-caillats-no-1-miley-crashes-party-on-billboard-200-267524/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=2 September 2009}}{{cite web |last1=Seabrook III |first1=Robby |title=French Montana & Travis Scott's 'Jump' Samples An Imogen Heap Song |url=https://genius.com/a/french-montana-travis-scott-s-jump-samples-an-imogen-heap-song |website=Genius |access-date=16 May 2025 |date=15 July 2017}}{{cite magazine |last=Sutherland |first=Mark |date=20 June 2009 |title=On the Fast Track |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBeEDJhw110C&pg=PA24 |magazine=Billboard |location= |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2025 |pages=24–26}} Speak for Yourself has been described as her breakout album. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for Heap's voice, songwriting, and innovation.Praise for Speak for Yourself{{'}}s vocals, songwriting, and innovation:

• {{cite web |last1=Perlaki |first1=Mark |title=Imogen Heap - 'Speak For Yourself' |url=http://gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=7914 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628010051/http://gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=7914 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-06-28 |website=Gigwise |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=28 June 2006 |quote=Her second solo album, Speak for Yourself, displays talented songwriting and an expressive voice{{nbsp}}... it's in the lyrics and voice that Imogen truly shines.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Reid |first1=Dave |title=Imogen Heap - 'Speak for Yourself' |url=https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/imogen-heap-speak-for-yourself |website=The Skinny |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=16 April 2006 |quote=Heap [has] ethereal vocals{{nbsp}}... there is fine song writing and production craft at work throughout{{nbsp}}... The entire work is infused with Imogen's personal style that sounds like nobody but herself.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Hyman |first1=Nick |title=Imogen Heap: Speak for Yourself |url=http://www.undertheradarmag.com/imogenheapreview.html |website=Under the Radar |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=11 May 2008 |quote=Heap's song structure and production showcase intense passion ... [she has] a damn compelling voice.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Vrabel |first1=Jeff |title=Imogen Heap: Speak For Yourself |url=https://www.popmatters.com/heapimogen-speak-2495933861.html |website=PopMatters |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=19 December 2005 |quote=... through it all, though, her vocals remain a sweet, stirring center ...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Luerssen |first1=John D. |title=Speak for Yourself Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/speak-for-yourself-mw0000348343 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=5 May 2025 |quote=The U.S. debut solo album by Frou Frou vocalist Imogen Heap is a captivating record that fuses innovative electronic soundscapes with a strong female voice.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Ridgway |first1=Julian |title=Album Review: Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself |url=https://drownedinsound.com/releases/4156/reviews/12726- |website=Drowned in Sound |access-date=5 May 2025 |quote=However, at its core, 'Speak for Yourself' is inventive and genuinely captivating. |date=18 July 2005}}

However, some criticized its production for sounding too polished and overornate.Criticism for polished/overornate production:

• {{cite web |last1=Perlaki |first1=Mark |title=Imogen Heap - 'Speak For Yourself' |url=http://gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=7914 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628010051/http://gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=7914 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-06-28 |website=Gigwise |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=28 June 2006 |quote=... the beats can be somewhat overbearing and distracting at times{{nbsp}}...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Heawood |first1=Sophie |title=Imogen Heap, Speak for Yourself |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/aug/12/popandrock.shopping1 |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=12 August 2005 |quote=However, Heap's expert production skills are her downfall: her voice is so well sculpted here that its natural shine can get lost{{nbsp}}...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Raposa |first1=David |title=Imogen Heap: Speak for Yourself |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4025-speak-for-yourself/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=31 October 2005 |quote=This record is produced within an inch of its life, sounds on top of sounds topped off with a gauzy candy-coated sheen that's, at times, too much to bear{{nbsp}}... sometimes, she gets lost within her own round-robin multi-tracking trickery.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Liss |first1=Sarah |title=imogen heap |url=https://nowtoronto.com/music/imogen-heap/ |website=Now |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=12 January 2006 |quote=... the sanded-off production of Speak For Yourself lets it fade into pleasant aural wallpaper more often than not.}} "Goodnight and Go" was released in May 2006 through Sony BMG as Speak for Yourself{{'}}s second single and debuted at number 56 on the UK Singles Chart.{{cite web |last1=Oinonen |first1=Janne |title=Imogen Heap - 'Goodnight & Go' |url=https://www.gigwise.com/reviews/tracks/16568/Imogen-Heap---Goodnight--Go-SonyBMG-Released-080506/ |website=Gigwise |access-date=7 May 2025 |date=2 May 2006}}{{cite web |title=Official Singles Chart on 14/5/2006 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20060514/7501/ |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=8 May 2025}} It was followed by "Headlock" in October 2006, which was released through White Rabbit, a sublabel of Sony BMG run by Nick Raphael that later merged into Epic Records UK in 2007.{{cite web |title=Sony BMG U.K. relaunches Epic |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-bmg-uk-relaunches-epic-132868/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=6 May 2025 |location=London |date=27 March 2007}}{{cite web |last1=Renshaw |first1=David |title=Imogen Heap - 'Headlock' |url=https://www.gigwise.com/reviews/tracks/23031/Imogen-Heap---Headlock-White-Rabbit-Released-161006/ |website=Gigwise |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=2 October 2006}}

In August 2005, Heap appeared on the soundtrack for the 2005 romantic comedy film Just Like Heaven, performing a cover of the song "Spooky" by American band Classics IV.{{cite web |title=Just Like Heaven Soundtrack On The Way |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/08/24/just-like-heaven-soundtrack-on-the-way |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506070456/https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/08/24/just-like-heaven-soundtrack-on-the-way |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 May 2023 |website=IGN |access-date=4 December 2020 |date=24 August 2005 }} In November 2005, Heap wrote and produced the song "Can't Take It In" for the soundtrack of the fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was released one month later, after a soundtrack appearance by Dido fell through and the film's music supervisor needed a replacement.{{cite web |title=Imogen Heap Visits Narnia |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/11/17/imogen-heap-visits-narnia |website=IGN |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=17 November 2005}}{{cite magazine |title=Singer/Songwriters Contribute To 'Narnia' |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/60486/singersongwriters-contribute-to-narnia |magazine=Billboard |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=1 December 2005}} The song was later nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media at the 49th Grammy Awards in 2007, where she was also nominated as Best New Artist, and for the World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song in 2006.{{cite web |title=Grammy winners |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/awards/grammy-winners-2-1117959011/ |website=Variety |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=11 February 2007}}{{cite web |last1=Goodridge |first1=Mike |title=Brokeback, Kong among World Soundtrack Award nominees |url=https://www.screendaily.com/brokeback-kong-among-world-soundtrack-award-nominees/4028328.article |website=Screen International |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=18 August 2006}} Also in November of that year, she performed at a benefit concert at the London Astoria for the Stop the War Coalition, which was headlined by Rachid Taha and Brian Eno and also featured Nitin Sawhney and Mick Jones of The Clash.{{cite web |title=Listings: This week, don't miss... |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/listings-this-week-dont-miss-ns5kxhd50q9 |website=The Times |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=27 November 2005}}{{cite web |last1=Prasad |first1=Yuri |title=Nitin Sawhney: taking a stand against the war, lies and racism |url=https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/nitin-sawhney-taking-a-stand-against-the-war-lies-and-racism/ |website=Socialist Worker |access-date=5 May 2025 |date=26 November 2005}}

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After touring in promotion of Speak for Yourself, she did a one-off show at Scala in London in February 2006.{{cite web |last1=Rigby |first1=Tony |title=Imogen Heap, Scala, London |url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/imogen-heap-scala-london-6109572.html |website=The Independent |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=9 February 2006}} She then performed at Coachella and went on a three-week-long tour of the US in May 2006. Heap recorded an a cappella cover of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" for the season three finale of The O.C., which premiered in May 2006.{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Cara |last2=Lawler |first2=Kelly |title=The best covers of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/11/11/best-covers-leonard-cohens-hallelujah/93636800/ |website=USA Today |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=11 November 2016}} By mid-2006, Heap was one of the most popular musical acts on Myspace, with more than one and a half million profile users. She was variously referred to in the media as the first "download diva" for her robust online presence and independent success online in 2006.Heap being referred to as a "download diva":

• {{cite web |title=Praise heaped on download diva |url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/praise-heaped-on-download-diva-20060502-ge28ey.html |website=The Age |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=2 May 2006 |quote=Hailed as one of the first download divas, British singer Imogen Heap{{nbsp}}... through a combination of Internet word-of-mouth, determination, desperation and a large slice of good luck{{nbsp}}... has revived a career that was going nowhere fast.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Oinonen |first1=Janne |title=Imogen Heap - 'Goodnight & Go' |url=https://www.gigwise.com/reviews/tracks/16568/Imogen-Heap---Goodnight--Go-SonyBMG-Released-080506/ |website=Gigwise |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=2 May 2006 |quote=Heap, dubbed a 'download diva' for her huge online profile{{nbsp}}...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Clarke |first1=Betty |title=Imogen Heap: Scala, London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/feb/10/popandrock |website=The Guardian |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=10 February 2006 |quote=Eccentric, emotive and deftly picking at the shiny bank of machines, Heap has the dubious honour of being the first download diva.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Dubrowa |first1=Corey |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/imogen-heap/imogen-heap-ellipse |website=Paste |access-date=12 May 2025 |quote=So-called 'Download Diva' continues musical exploration of the waking dream. |date=27 August 2009}} Heap's music was used as the soundtrack for Pool (No Water), a one-act physical theatre play written by Mark Ravenhill and originally performed by Frantic Assembly, which opened at the Drum Theatre in Plymouth in September 2006.{{cite web |last1=Benedict |first1=David |title=Pool (No Water) |url=https://variety.com/2006/legit/reviews/pool-no-water-1200512063/ |website=Variety |access-date=7 May 2025 |date=12 November 2006}}{{cite web |author1=Ravenhill, Mark |title=In at the deep end |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/sep/20/theatre1 |website=The Guardian |access-date=6 May 2025 |date=20 September 2006}} At the 2006 MTVU Woodie Awards, which was voted on by college students, Heap tied with Arctic Monkeys for the most nominations with three (for Best Emerging Artist, Most Original Artist, and Most Downloaded for "Hide and Seek"), though she won none. She wrote and performed the song "Glittering Cloud", which was based on the plague of locusts, as part of an event called the Margate Exodus sponsored by Artangel in November 2006, where ten artists each performed one song based on one of the Plagues of Egypt in Margate.{{cite web |title=4AD announces 'Plague Songs' |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/4ad-announces-p/ |website=BrooklynVegan |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=25 September 2006}} The songs were compiled in the 2006 album Plague Songs.{{cite web |last1=Gray |first1=Louise |title=Plague Songs |url=https://newint.org/columns/media/music/2006/12/01/plague |website=New Internationalist |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=2 December 2006}} Heap toured the US in late 2006 with beatboxer Kid Beyond, singer-songwriter Levi Weaver, and electronic musician Pixelh8, whom she found through Myspace, as opening acts.{{cite web |last1=Albertson |first1=Cory |title=Imogen Heap |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/imogen-heap/imogen-heap |website=Paste |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=30 May 2007}}{{cite web |last1=Shaffner |first1=Jason |title=Imogen Heap |url=http://beingtheremag.com/reviewlive.php?id=546&issue=21 |website=Being There |access-date=8 May 2025 |date=11 November 2006}}

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By 2007, Heap's was the fourth most-friended Myspace profile throughout the UK, following Product Red, Gorillaz, and Bullet for My Valentine.{{cite web |last1=Sweney |first1=Mark |title=MySpace UK breaks 10m barrier |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jul/10/digitalmedia.myspace |website=The Guardian |access-date=6 May 2025 |date=10 July 2007}} I Megaphone was re-released in late 2006 and, in February 2007, she performed two shows—one in Los Angeles and the other in New York City—of material from the album.{{cite web |title=Reviews: Week of December 14, 2006 |url=https://music.newcity.com/2006/12/14/reviews-week-of-december-14-2006/ |website=Newcity |access-date=6 May 2025 |date=14 December 2006}}{{cite web |title=Imogen Heap playing NYC (The Box) & LA |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/imogen-heap-pla/ |website=BrooklynVegan |access-date=6 May 2025 |date=12 February 2007}} She was also featured as a guest during Beck's performance at Ronnie Scott's in November 2007 and appeared on two songs from its accompanying live album, Live at Ronnie Scott's, released in 2008, and in its DVD, released in 2009.{{cite web |last1=Walters |first1=John L. |title=Jeff Beck |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/29/popandrock |website=The Guardian |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=29 November 2007}}{{cite web |last1=Loar |first1=Christel |title=Jeff Beck: Performing This Week...Live at Ronnie Scott's |url=https://www.popmatters.com/jeff-beck-performing-this-week-live-at-ronnie-scotts-2496034643.html |website=PopMatters |access-date=8 January 2021 |language=en |date=5 April 2009}} Heap was featured on English band Temposhark's song "Not That Big" from their debut 2008 studio album The Invisible Line and on Nitin Sawhney's song "Bring It Home" from his 2008 studio album London Undersound.{{cite web |last1=Serck |first1=Linda |title=Interview: Temposhark |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2008/05/22/temposhark_interview_feature.shtml |website=BBC News |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=22 May 2008}}{{cite web |last1=Lockie |first1=Chris |title=10 London-Titled Albums Of Varying Quality |url=https://londonist.com/2014/06/10-london-titled-albums-of-varying-quality |website=Londonist |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=20 June 2014}} She also appeared on the 2008 compilation album Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace, which was made by the Art of Peace Foundation in support of the Dalai Lama during the 2008 Tibetan unrest and released in August.{{cite web |last1=Finn |first1=Natalie |title=Sting, Matthews, Mayer Gamer for Tibet Than Beijing |url=http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b147502_sting_matthews_mayer_gamer_tibet_beijing.html |website=E! News |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=22 July 2008}} In late 2007, she recorded the song "Not Now But Soon" for the soundtrack of the NBC television series Heroes, the album of which was released in March 2008 by the NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music & Consumer Products Group.{{cite web |last1=Rudolph |first1=Raj |title=Sneak Peak Of Imogen Heap's 'Not Now But Soon' for Heroes! |url=https://eqmusicblog.com/sneak-peak-of-i/ |website=EQ Music |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=3 December 2007}}{{cite web |last1=Nordyke |first1=Kimberly |title=Songs, videos keep 'Heroes' alive |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/songs-videos-keep-heroes-alive-105781/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=28 February 2008}} In October 2008, Heap gave a musical performance in the anti-human trafficking documentary and rockumentary film Call + Response, directed by Justin Dillon.{{cite web |last1=Shannon |first1=Jeff |title="Call + Response": A rough but impassioned call to end human trafficking |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/call-response-a-rough-but-impassioned-call-to-end-human-trafficking/ |website=The Seattle Times |access-date=8 January 2021 |language=en |date=9 October 2008}}

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Starting in February 2007, Heap began posting YouTube video blogs at the request of a fan to document the making of Ellipse, her third studio album, eventually making a total of 40.{{cite web |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/sep/06/imogen-heap-ellipse |website=The Observer |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=5 September 2009}} She recorded the album in the basement of her childhood home, using sounds from around the house as instruments, while its name was inspired by the house's elliptical shape.{{cite web |last1=Block |first1=Melissa |title=Imogen Heap: Even The Kitchen Sink |url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/112440133 |publisher=NPR |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=1 September 2009}} Its lead single "First Train Home" premiered on Stereogum and was released to adult alternative and hot AC radio stations through RCA Records in the US in July 2009.{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Alex |title=Check Out: Imogen Heap - 'First Train Home' |url=https://consequence.net/2009/07/check-out-imogen-heap-first-train-home/ |website=Consequence |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=16 July 2009}} Later that month, she released a black-and-white music video for the album's song "Canvas".{{cite web |last1=Stosuy |first1=Brandon |title=New Imogen Heap Video – 'Canvas' |url=https://www.stereogum.com/81041/new_imogen_heap_video_-_canvas/news/ |website=Stereogum |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=23 July 2009}} After completing Ellipse, she held a contest on Flickr for fans to submit photos to use as the album's artwork in exchange for a small cash prize.{{cite web |last1=Bascaramurty |first1=Dakshana |title=Imogen Heap's tweet sound of success |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/imogen-heaps-tweet-sound-of-success/article4284780/ |website=The Globe and Mail |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=1 September 2009}} In July, prior to the album's release, an advance promotional copy was listed on eBay. After Heap tweeted about her frustration over it, the bidding price was raised to over £10 million by fans and the listing was soon taken down by eBay.{{cite web |last1=Porter |first1=Tom |title=Imogen Heap and Twitter fans halt eBay album leak |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/imogen-heap-and-twitter-fans-halt-ebay-album-leak-212510 |website=MusicRadar |publisher=Future plc |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=9 July 2009}} The release date of Ellipse was pushed back multiple times; it was eventually released in the UK on 24 August 2009 through Megaphonic and Epic Records and in the US on 25 August 2009 through RCA.{{cite web |last1=Lyndal Martin |first1=Eric |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse |url=https://www.popmatters.com/109814-imogen-heap-ellipse-2496069364.html |website=PopMatters |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=24 August 2009}}{{cite web |last1=Gill |first1=Andy |title=Album: Imogen Heap, Ellipse |url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-imogen-heap-ellipse-megaphonic-epic-1778134.html |website=The Independent |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=27 August 2009}}{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Thomas H. |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse, CD review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6056627/Imogen-Heap-Ellipse-CD-review.html |website=The Telegraph |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=24 August 2009}}{{cite web |last1=FitzSimons |first1=Amanda |title=Girl Of Summer: Imogen Heap |url=https://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/girl-of-summer-imogen-heap-2217403/ |website=WWD |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=21 July 2009}} Like Speak for Yourself, Ellipse was made largely alone by Heap, who wrote, produced, engineered, and mixed the album in its entirety, though it was mastered by Simon Heyworth. Describing the two-year-long process of recording Ellipse as laborious and "bordering on torture", Heap stated that it would be her "last album like this" and that her following album would involve making one song a month and releasing it soon after.

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Critics gave Ellipse mostly favorable reviews, with compliments toward its eclecticism, Heap's understated vocals, and for combining electronic music with natural, human elements,Praise for Ellipse{{'}}s eclecticism and electronic/natural elements:

• {{cite web |last1=Phares |first1=Heather |title=Ellipse Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/ellipse-mw0000823106 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=21 July 2009 |quote=Ellipse is some of her most wide-ranging work, physically and musically speaking{{nbsp}}... Heap takes listeners on a tour of characters and attitudes far more eclectic than her previous albums{{nbsp}}... "Between Sheets"{{nbsp}}... mixes romantic bliss and bubbly electronics so completely, it suggests her bed might be on a spaceship.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Caroline |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/14/imogen-heap-cd-review |website=The Guardian |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=13 August 2009 |quote=Ellipse is questing and musically inventive, using electronics as its foundation, but fleshing out the bleeps and clicks with everything from the chirp of jayhawks (on Little Bird) to an Indian flautist (Tidal){{nbsp}}... An understated vocalist, Heap sounds by turns warm and inviting and mistily detached{{nbsp}}...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Liedel |first1=Kevin |title=Review: Imogen Heap, Ellipse |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/imogen-heap-ellipse/ |website=Slant |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=24 August 2009 |quote=It is that exact lovestruck normalcy that makes Ellipse so endearing: Despite having a sound that seems as though it's been pieced together in a lab with microchips, Heap still wears a fuming, beating heart firmly on her sleeve.}}
• {{cite magazine |last=Modell |first=Josh |date=August 2009 |title=Imogen Heap - Ellipse |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGaz0_gZPzIC&dq=%22ice%20and%20melancholy%20to%20an%20otherwise%20comforting%20brew%22&pg=PA89 |magazine=Spin |page=89 |publisher= |access-date=12 May 2025 |quote=Heap grafts her gorgeous voice to such a seamlessly slick mix of synthesized (and organic) sounds that it's a wonder her words stick at all. Her third studio album{{nbsp}}... recall[s] the Postal Service's mix of the human and machinelike.}}
• {{cite web |last1=O'Hana |first1=Tristan |title=Imogen Heap - 'Ellipse' |url=https://www.gigwise.com/reviews/albums/52081/Imogen-Heap---Ellipse-Sony-Released-240809/ |website=Gigwise |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=12 August 2009 |quote=The initial feel of the music washes over you with a slightly odd mix of African tribal tunes and Enya-like vocals. If you can begin to grasp that, then you might be able to imagine just what an eclectic mix of style Imogen is capable of producing.}} but criticism toward its overall sameness and its lack of sonic deviation from Speak for Yourself.Criticism for Ellipse{{'}}s sameness and sounding like Speak for Yourself:
• {{cite web |last1=Liedel |first1=Kevin |title=Review: Imogen Heap, Ellipse |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/imogen-heap-ellipse/ |website=Slant |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=24 August 2009 |quote={{nbsp}}... Ellipse banally trips into regions already mined by Speak for Yourself.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Gill |first1=Andy |title=Album: Imogen Heap, Ellipse |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-imogen-heap-ellipse-megaphonicepic-1778134.html |website=The Independent |access-date=12 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090829131628/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-imogen-heap-ellipse-megaphonicepic-1778134.html |archive-date=29 August 2009 |date=28 August 2009 |quote=Heap's musical style, meanwhile, hasn't progressed too much since 2005's Speak For Yourself{{nbsp}}...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=John |title=Imogen Heap - Ellipse |url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/imogen-heap-ellipse |website=MusicOMH |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=23 August 2009 |quote=Her third album, Ellipse, follows pretty squarely in the path of her previous releases{{nbsp}}...there are far too many songs which sound similar to each other, sticking to the same, plodding mid-tempo feel{{nbsp}}...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Alex |title=Imogen Heap – Ellipse |url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2009/08/album-review-imogen-heap-ellipse/ |website=Consequence |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=23 August 2009 |quote=Ellipse{{nbsp}}... is a highly anticipated follow-up that shows an artist who is subconsciously afraid to depart too much from her most successful formula. [...] And seeing as much of this album sounds like it was plucked from her past discography{{nbsp}}...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Koski |first1=Genevieve |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse |url=https://www.avclub.com/imogen-heap-ellipse-1798206794 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=25 August 2009 |quote=The record's first two tracks{{nbsp}}... try to compensate for their blandness with the sort of twinkling, echoing effects that should be familiar to anyone who heard Speak For Yourself (or anything by Heap’s other outlet, Frou Frou){{nbsp}} ... there’s a monotonous stretch of sameness to obscure the album's scant life.}}
• {{cite web |author1=Knott- |title=Imogen Heap - Ellipse (album review 3) |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/31983/Imogen-Heap-Ellipse/ |website=Sputnikmusic |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=19 August 2009 |quote={{nbsp}}... there's a nagging feeling that there's only so much Heap can do without reaching for something more ambitious and varied. [...] It's a welcome and impressive addition to her back catalogue; it's just a shame that it doesn't feel like much more than that.}} Critics also remarked that it had no moments comparable to "Hide and Seek"Critics remarking on lack of "Hide and Seek" moment on Ellipse:
• {{cite web |last1=Phares |first1=Heather |title=Ellipse Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/ellipse-mw0000823106 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=12 May 2025 |quote=Ellipse might not have a single moment as arresting as 'Hide and Seek'{{nbsp}}...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Caroline |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/14/imogen-heap-cd-review |website=The Guardian |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=13 August 2009 |quote=This beguiling third album deserves to be her breakthrough moment, though the absence of an obvious Hide and Seek-style focal point may hinder its chances.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Fairclough |first1=Hayley |title=Imogen Heap - Ellipse |url=https://diymag.com/review/album/imogen-heap-ellipse |website=DIY |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=24 August 2009 |quote={{nbsp}}... 'Ellipse' seems to lack a 'Hide and Seek'-like cult song{{nbsp}}...}} and others compared its sound to that of Dido.Comparisons of Ellipse to Dido:
• {{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=John |title=Imogen Heap - Ellipse |url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/imogen-heap-ellipse |website=MusicOMH |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=23 August 2009 |quote={{nbsp}}... the same, plodding mid-tempo feel{{nbsp}}... sometimes bring[s] to mind a more inventive version of Dido.}}
• {{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Thomas H. |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse, CD review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6056627/Imogen-Heap-Ellipse-CD-review.html |website=The Telegraph |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=24 August 2009 |quote=Her third solo album is{{nbsp}}... at its most tedious when embracing Dido-esque balladeering.}}
• {{cite magazine |last1=Mason |first1=Kerri |title=Imogen Heap, 'Ellipse' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/imogen-heap-ellipse-1070984/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=14 August 2009 |quote=The opening track/lead single, 'First Train Home,' is her best shot yet at radio, with a dewy Dido electro-sheen but with more literate lyrics.}} It debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart, making it Heap's highest-ever entry on the chart after selling 48 thousand copies in its first week, and became her first top-40 appearance on the UK Albums Chart.{{cite web |last1=Nineham |first1=Laura |title=Back Full Circle - Imogen Heap |url=https://www.gigwise.com/features/53301/Back-Full-Circle---Imogen-Heap/ |website=Gigwise |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=4 November 2009}} Heap began touring in promotion of Ellipse in November 2009.{{cite web |last1=Comingore |first1=Aly |title=Imogen Heap Brings Ellipse to Lobero |url=https://www.independent.com/2009/11/06/imogen-heap-brings-ellipse-lobero/ |website=Santa Barbara Independent |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=6 November 2009}} She received two nominations for the album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards: one for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for its song "The Fire", and the other for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.{{cite web |last1=Howard |first1=George |title=Imogen Heap's Mycelia: An Artists' Approach for a Fair Trade Music Business, Inspired by Blockchain |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgehoward/2015/07/17/imogen-heaps-mycelia-an-artists-approach-for-a-fair-trade-music-business-inspired-by-blockchain/?sh=67a35eca4969 |website=Forbes |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=17 July 2015}}{{cite web |last1=Pareles |first1=Jon |author1-link=Jon Pareles |title=A 21st-Century Geek Getting Her Loop On |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/arts/music/04heap.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=3 December 2009}} She won the latter award to become its second-ever female recipient, following Trina Shoemaker's 1999 win for Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions.{{cite web |title=Painting Her Songs in the Air, Imogen Heap Keeps Innovating |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/08/16/340130173/painting-her-songs-in-the-air-imogen-heap-keeps-innovating |publisher=NPR |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=16 August 2014}}{{cite magazine |last1=Grein |first1=Paul |title=Hill Kourkoutis Becomes First Woman to Receive a Juno Awards Nomination for Recording Engineer of the Year |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/juno-awards-first-woman-recording-engineer-nominee-hill-kourkoutis-1235040669/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=31 May 2025 |date=9 March 2022}} Everything In-Between: The Story of Ellipse, a documentary by Justine Pearsall chronicling the making of Ellipse, was released on DVD in November 2010.{{cite web |last1=Kappala-Ramsamy |first1=Gemma |title=Imogen Heap: 'Unless somebody else hears it, music is like a joke without a punchline' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/07/imogen-heap-interview |website=The Guardian |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=7 November 2010}}{{cite web |last1=Stickler |first1=Jon |title=Imogen Heap To Release New DVD 'Everything In-Between: The Story Of Ellipse' - Stereoboard |url=https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/161765/9 |website=Stereoboard |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=5 October 2010}}{{cite web |title=How heart surgery gave me a new outlook |url=https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/my-story/justine-pearsall |publisher=British Heart Foundation |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=3 March 2020 |quote=I never expected to discover that I had a heart condition. I was busy making a feature-length documentary about the amazing musician Imogen Heap, so I thought it was the stress of work that was making my heart do odd things.}}

By September 2009, Heap was the 117th most-followed user overall on Twitter, with more than 960 thousand followers. She was featured on the song "My Secret Friend" by IAMX from his 2009 album Kingdom of Welcome Addiction and contributed vocals to Mika's song "By the Time" from his album The Boy Who Knew Too Much, released in September 2009.{{cite web |last1=K. |first1=Sean |title=Take a Look at Your Life, You Kneel Before Your Heroes - You're Nothing Till the Weekend |url=https://www.pajiba.com/music/iamx-kingdom-of-welcome-addiction-review.php |website=Pajiba |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=17 June 2009}}{{cite magazine |last1=Wood |first1=Mikael |title=Mika, 'The Boy Who Knew Too Much' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/mika-the-boy-who-knew-too-much-1070880/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=11 September 2009}} She won the Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement in May 2010.{{cite web |last1=Awbi |first1=Anita |title=The Ivor Novello Awards winners |url=https://www.prsformusic.com/m-magazine/news/the-ivor-novello-awards-winners-3 |website=M |publisher=PRS for Music |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=24 May 2010}} She went on tour in 2010, starting in Los Angeles and performing at V Festival, Coachella, and Ilosaarirock.{{cite web |title=Kasabian and Kings of Leon to headline V Festival |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-10058942 |website=BBC News |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=1 March 2010}}{{cite web |title=Coachella webcast schedule: Vampire Weekend, The xx, B.o.B., and more |url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/coachella-webcast-schedule-vampire-weekend-the-xx-b-o-b-and-more-5535190.html |website=The Independent |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=15 April 2010}} She auditioned musicians for the tour using the livestreaming service Vokle, which she later promoted at Midem and invested seed money in the following year.{{cite web |title=Imogen Heap invests in Vokle as part of $767k round |url=https://musically.com/2011/04/20/imogen-heap-invests-in-vokle-as-part-of-767k-round/ |website=Music Ally |access-date=16 May 2025 |date=20 April 2011}} The seventh leg of the tour took place in the UK in the fall of 2010. It included a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, where she premiered Love the Earth, a short nature documentary created and scored by her, which consisted of clips sent in by fans of "why they love the Earth".{{cite web |last1=Hardy |first1=Tony |title=Imogen Heap enchants London's Royal Albert Hall (11/5) |url=https://consequence.net/2010/11/imogen-heap-enchants-londons-royal-albert-hall-115/ |website=Consequence |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=8 November 2010}}

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In March 2011, for the Birds Eye View's Sound & Silents program, Heap composed an a cappella score for Germaine Dulac's seminal 1928 surrealist film The Seashell and the Clergyman, which she performed at the Latitude Festival that year with the Holst Singers.{{cite web |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Pamela |title=Silent film at Latitude Festival: Birds Eye View Sound and Silents, 14-17 July 2011 |url=https://silentlondon.co.uk/2011/05/26/silent-film-at-latitude-festival-birds-eye-view-sound-and-silents-14-17-july-2011/ |website=Silent London |access-date=18 May 2025 |date=26 May 2011}} She performed it again, conducted by Hugh Brunt, at the Roundhouse in February the following year.{{cite web |last1=Moats |first1=David |author1-link=David Moats |title=Sound and Vision: Imogen Heap On A New Score To A Surreal Classic |url=https://thequietus.com/culture/film/vocal-soundtrack-to-seashell-and-the-clergyman-imogen-heap-interviewed/ |website=The Quietus |access-date=15 May 2025 |date=10 March 2011}}{{cite web |last1=Millward |first1=Rachel |title=Imogen Heap - The Seashell and The Clergyman: an introduction |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/24/reverb-festival-2012-imogen-heap |website=The Guardian |access-date=15 May 2025 |date=24 February 2012}} In April of that year, Heap played a benefit concert in Christchurch, New Zealand, to help rebuild the Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti High School following a severe earthquake which had destroyed a large portion of the city two months prior. The concert was held at the Burnside High School's Aurora Centre, also featuring performances from Roseanna Gamlen-Greene and the Harbour Union. It was her only New Zealand show for the year.{{cite news|last1=Anderson|first1=Vicki|date=28 April 2011|title=Lesson in acoustic generosity|work=Stuff|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/4934928/Lesson-in-acoustic-generosity|access-date=17 December 2015}} Also in March 2011, Heap began working on her then-unnamed fourth studio album and revealed that she would be writing and releasing a new single for the album once every three months, beginning with the recording and release of the album's lead single, then released under the working title "Heapsong1" and eventually released commercially as "Lifeline", via Ustream.{{cite web |last1=Mathieson |first1=Craig |title=Give and she shall receive |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/give-and-she-shall-receive-20110414-1dffw.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=26 November 2020 |language=en |date=14 April 2011}}{{cite magazine |last1=Lipshutz |first1=Jason |title=Imogen Heap Talks New Album, Fan-Created First Song |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/472326/imogen-heap-talks-new-album-fan-created-first-song |magazine=Billboard |access-date=26 November 2020 |language=en |date=28 March 2011}} "Propeller Seeds", the second single, followed in July 2011.{{cite web |last1=Flood |first1=Kathleen |title=Imogen Heap's Musical 'Touch' |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmd3qw/imogen-heaps-musical-touch |website=Vice |access-date=6 January 2021 |language=en |date=14 July 2011}}

The third single from the album, "Neglected Space", was created as part of Heap's project with charity organization Clear Village to restore a walled garden in Bedfords Park in October 2011.{{cite web |last1=Richards |first1=Lee-Ann |title=Imogen Heap restores abandoned walled garden as part of new album project |url=https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/things-to-do/imogen-heap-restores-abandoned-walled-garden-as-part-of-new-2913910 |website=Romford Recorder |access-date=28 December 2020 |language=en-UK |date=6 October 2011}} She starred in the debut episode of the MTV India musical reality television series The Dewarists, where she recorded "Minds Without Fear", her fourth single from Sparks, with Indian production duo Vishal–Shekhar.{{cite web |last1=Arslan |first1=Zaira |title=Music on the Move |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/music-on-the-move/867068/ |website=The Indian Express |access-date=27 November 2020 |language=en |date=29 October 2011}}{{cite web |last1=Jayakumar |first1=Gowri |title=Imogen Heap to weave Asian sounds into new album |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imogenheap/imogen-heap-to-weave-asian-sounds-into-new-album-idUSTRE7AN01Q20111124 |work=Reuters |access-date=27 November 2020 |language=en |date=24 November 2011}} Both "Neglected Space" and "Minds Without Fear" were released in October 2011.

Heap recorded her song "Xizi She Knows" during a trip to Hangzhou, which was partially funded by PRS for Music and the British Council. It was released as the fifth single from the album in February 2012.{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Casper Llewellyn |title=Imogen Heap: 'I've just done a poll with YouGov to find out about my fans' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/feb/23/30-minutes-with-imogen-heap |website=The Guardian |access-date=28 December 2020 |language=en |date=23 February 2012}} "You Know Where to Find Me" was then released as the album's sixth single. She collaborated with Canadian record producer Deadmau5 on the song "Telemiscommunications", which was included on his 2012 studio album, Album Title Goes Here, and released as the eighth single from the album in March 2013 alongside an animated music video.{{cite web |last1=Adams |first1=Gregory |title='Telemiscommunications' (ft. Imogen Heap) (video) |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/deadmau5-telemiscommunications_ft_imogen_heap_video |website=Exclaim! |access-date=10 July 2023 |date=12 March 2013}} Her single "Run-Time" was made using a generative music app, which she designed with RjDj and Intel that created custom music for running, and was released in July 2014 with a music video.{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Alissa |title=Imogen Heap Made Her New Single Using A Running App She Designed |url=https://gizmodo.com/imogen-heap-made-her-new-single-using-a-running-app-she-1609863668 |website=Gizmodo |access-date=10 July 2023 |date=24 July 2014}}

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The title of Sparks, Heap's fourth studio album, was announced in September 2013, and the album was released on 18 August 2014 through Megaphonic Records.{{cite web |last1=Levine |first1=Nick |title=Imogen Heap announces release of new album 'Sparks' in March 2014 |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/imogen-heap-1250334 |website=NME |access-date=10 July 2023 |date=21 September 2013}}{{cite web |last1=Spenceley |first1=Haydon |title=Album Review: Imogen Heap - Sparks |url=https://drownedinsound.com/releases/18370/reviews/4148120 |website=Drowned in Sound |access-date=10 July 2023 |date=18 August 2014 |archive-date=10 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710070533/https://drownedinsound.com/releases/18370/reviews/4148120 |url-status=dead }} It debuted at number 40 on the UK Albums Chart, at number 21 on the Billboard 200, and at number one on Billboard{{'}}s Dance/Electronic Albums chart.{{cite web |title=Collabro hit Number 1 with debut album Stars |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/collabro-hit-number-1-with-debut-album-stars__7519 |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=10 July 2023 |date=24 August 2014}}{{cite magazine |last1=Murray |first1=Gordon |title=Demi Lovato Thanks DJs for Dance Club Songs No. 1 |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6236427/demi-lovato-thanks-djs-for-dance-club-songs-no-1 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en |date=29 August 2014}} Its deluxe boxset was nominated for the AIM Independent Music Award for Special Catalogue Release of the Year and for the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package in 2015.{{cite web |last1=Murray |first1=Robin |title=AIM Independent Music Awards 2015 - Nominations |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/aim-independent-music-awards-2015-nominations/ |website=Clash |access-date=10 July 2023 |date=12 August 2015}}{{cite web |last1=Grebey |first1=James |title=Grammys 2015 Winners: Sam Smith, Jack White, Beck, And More |url=https://www.spin.com/2015/02/grammys-2015-winners-eminem-jack-white-aphex-twin/ |website=Spin |access-date=10 July 2023 |date=8 February 2015}}

Heap co-wrote and produced the Taylor Swift song "Clean", which appeared as the closer to Swift's fifth studio album 1989 (2014) and led to her being part of the production team that won Album of the Year at the 58th Grammy Awards.{{Cite web|last=Wong|first=Kathleen|title=Taylor Swift's Music Won Her Album of the Year – Here Are the People Behind '1989'|url=https://www.mic.com/articles/135847/taylor-swift-s-music-won-her-album-of-the-year-here-are-the-people-behind-1989|access-date=19 January 2021|website=Mic|date=22 February 2016 |language=en}} She returned to produce "Clean (Taylor's Version)", which peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100, for Swift's 2023 re-recording of 1989.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-clean-1989-taylors-version-imogen-heap-1235457439/ |title=Imogen Heap Shares Photos From 'Clean' Recording Session to Celebrate '1989 (Taylor's Version)' Release |last=Iasimone |first=Ashley |magazine=Billboard |date=28 October 2023 |access-date=30 October 2023}} In October 2015, Heap released the single "Tiny Human" using her blockchain-based platform Mycelia. By 2017, it had sold US$133.20.{{cite web |last1=Haring |first1=Bruce |title=This Week In Music: Kings Of Leon Offer Album On NFT – But Past Formats Have Left Listeners SOL |url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/this-week-in-music-kings-of-leon-offer-album-on-nft-but-past-formats-have-left-listeners-sol-1234708493/ |website=Deadline |access-date=31 May 2025 |date=6 March 2021}}

After being contacted by movement director Steven Hoggett, Heap reworked and composed music from her catalogue to be used as the music in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth installment of the Harry Potter series in the form of a West End play that opened in the summer of 2016.{{cite web|last1=Amos|first1=Ilona|date=27 June 2015|title=JK Rowling reveals new Harry Potter stage play|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/theatre/jk-rowling-reveals-new-harry-potter-stage-play-1-3813629|access-date=30 May 2016|website=The Scotsman}}{{cite web|last=Lyall|first=Sarah|date=7 June 2016|title='Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' Begins Previews in London, as Magic Continues|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/theater/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-preview.html|access-date=29 June 2016|work=The New York Times}} For her work on the play, she received several award nominations, including for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway), and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/legit/news/drama-desk-awards-nominations-2018-full-list-1202788443/ |title='Carousel,' 'SpongeBob SquarePants' Lead 2018 Drama Desk Nominations (Full List) |last=Cox |first=Gordon |work=Variety |date=26 April 2018 |access-date=30 April 2018}}{{cite web |title=Olivier awards 2017: full list of nominations |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/06/olivier-awards-2017-full-list-of-nominations |website=The Guardian |access-date=6 December 2020 |language=en |date=6 March 2017}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/outer-critics-circle-award-nominations-2018_84927.html|title=2018 Outer Critics Circle Nominations Announced|date=24 April 2018|work=TheaterMania.com|access-date=24 April 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/2020-grammys-nominations-list-1203410085/ |title=Grammy Awards Nominations: The Complete List |website=Variety |date=21 November 2019 |access-date=21 November 2019}}

Heap was one of the artists featured in an episode of the 2016 PBS docuseries Soundbreaking and she narrated and composed music for the 2016 documentary Crossing Bhutan, which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.{{cite press release |title=Soundbreaking: Stories From The Cutting Edge Of Recorded Music To Debut November 14–23, 2016 on PBS |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/soundbreaking-stories-from-the-cutting-edge-of-recorded-music-to-debut-november-14-23-2016-on-pbs-300359250.html |agency=PR Newswire |access-date=9 January 2021 |language=en |date=8 November 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Davis |first1=Edward |title=Exclusive: Trailer For 'Crossing Bhutan' Making Its World Premiere At The Santa Barbara International Film Festival |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/02/exclusive-trailer-for-crossing-bhutan-making-its-world-premiere-at-the-santa-barbara-international-film-festival-83954/ |website=IndieWire |access-date=9 January 2021 |language=en |date=4 February 2016}} Also in 2016, she was commissioned by French advertising agency BETC and British company Cow & Gate, in collaboration with researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London, to help write a song which would be proven to "make babies happy", which was eventually titled "The Happy Song".{{cite web |last1=Carter |first1=Meg |title='The Happy Song': Babies And Imogen Heap Co-Wrote A Song For Cow & Gate |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3064691/the-happy-song-babies-and-imogen-heap-co-wrote-a-baby-food-brand-jingle |website=Fast Company |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=17 October 2016}} The track was engineered through several months of scientific testing on babies, also incorporating sounds from a survey of UK parents about which noises made their babies happy, and was released in October 2016.{{cite web |last1=O'Connell |first1=Mark |title=Letter of Recommendation: 'The Happy Song' by Imogen Heap |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/magazine/the-happy-song-imogen-heap.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=14 January 2020}} Its animated music video was released in December 2019 and had 62 million views on YouTube by 2024.{{cite web |last1=Reneau |first1=Annie |title=How 'The Happy Song' by Imogen Heap helps babies stop crying - Upworthy |url=https://www.upworthy.com/parents-share-how-the-happy-song-makes-their-babies-stop-crying-in-their-tracks |website=Upworthy |access-date=23 May 2025 |date=31 October 2024}} "The Happy Song" was certified silver in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and certified gold in the US, with Heap identifying it in 2019 as her second most commercially successfully song after "Hide and Seek".{{cite web |last1=Richardson |first1=Kitty |title=Imogen Heap: A quiet place |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/longread/imogen-heap-a-quiet-place-interview |website=The Line of Best Fit |access-date=24 May 2025 |date=10 December 2019}}

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Heap wrote, produced and recorded the song "Magic Me" as the score for the 2017 animated short film Escape, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in April of that year.{{cite web |last1=Giardina |first1=Carolyn |title=Tribeca Film Festival Animated Short 'Escape' Debuts Online |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/tribeca-film-festival-short-escape-debuts-online-996580 |website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=23 April 2017}} Heap also recorded "The Quiet" as the end credits song for the 2017 Square Enix video game The Quiet Man.{{cite web|url=https://www.dualshockers.com/the-quiet-man-soundtrack-imogen-heap/|title=The Quiet Man Will Have an Original Track, "The Quiet" Composed by Imogen Heap|work=DualShockers|last=Bayliss|first=Ben|date=17 October 2018|access-date=11 November 2018}} She performed "Hide and Seek" at the benefit concert and television special One Love Manchester in Manchester in June 2017. Her performance was praised by critics as "powerful" and "melancholy".{{cite news |title=Ariana Grande's One Love Manchester concert: the 10 best moments from last night |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/ariana-grandes-one-love-concert-best-moments-last-night/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/ariana-grandes-one-love-concert-best-moments-last-night/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=30 November 2020 |language=en |date=5 June 2017}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |last1=Donnelly |first1=Erin |title=One Love Manchester: 10 Performances Worth Reliving |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/06/157449/ariana-grande-one-love-manchester-concert-videos#slide-7 |website=Refinery29 |access-date=7 November 2021 |language=en |date=5 June 2017}}{{cite web |last1=O'Connor |first1=Roisin |title=One Love Manchester – the perfect way to respond to hate |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/one-love-manchester-review-ariana-grande-watch-liam-gallagher-coldplay-black-eyed-peas-video-donate-a7772781.html |website=The Independent |access-date=7 November 2021 |language=en |date=4 June 2017}} The following month, she was featured on the song "We Drift On" by British singer-songwriter Dan Black from his second studio album Do Not Revenge.{{cite web |title=Dan Black : Do Not Revenge |url=https://www.beat.com.au/dan-black-do-not-revenge/ |website=Beat Magazine |access-date=5 December 2020 |language=en-AU |date=11 July 2017 |last1=Brancatisano |first1=Gloria }} She announced in November 2017 that she would be reuniting Frou Frou with Guy Sigsworth and would be embarking on the Mycelia World Tour with him to promote the release of Mycelia's Creative Passport program.{{cite web |last1=Rosenzweig |first1=Mathias |title=Heroes: Imogen Heap |url=https://vmagazine.com/article/heroes-imogen-heap/ |website=V |access-date=6 December 2020 |language=en |date=25 May 2019}} In March 2018, she was awarded the Inspiration Award at the 2018 Music Producers Guild Awards.

On 18 September 2018, Heap released The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in Four Contemporary Suites, a condensed soundtrack album of the play, which peaked at number two on Billboard{{'}}s Classical Albums chart.{{cite web |last1=McHenry |first1=Jackson |title=How Imogen Heap Created Her Magical Tracks for the Harry Potter Play |url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-music-imogen-heap.html |website=Vulture |access-date=6 December 2020 |language=en-us |date=2 November 2018}} An interview with her appeared in the Alex Winter-directed documentary Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain in November 2018.{{cite web |last1=Kikta |first1=Lorry |title=Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain |url=https://filmthreat.com/reviews/trust-machine-the-story-of-blockchain/ |website=Film Threat |access-date=9 January 2021 |language=en |date=16 November 2018}} The Mycelia World Tour began in Europe in 2018, while the North American leg began in April 2019, marking her first North American tour in nine years and her first tour as part of Frou Frou since 2003.{{cite magazine |last1=Reed |first1=Ryan |title=Imogen Heap to Reunite Electro-Pop Band Frou Frou on North American Tour |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/imogen-heap-frou-frou-reunion-2019-north-american-tour-767034/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=10 December 2018}} That same month, she and Sigsworth released "Guitar Song (Live)", their first Frou Frou song in 15 years, through We Are Hear.{{cite magazine |last1=Legaspi |first1=Althea |title=Hear Frou Frou's First New Song in 15 Years 'Guitar Song (Live)' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/frou-frou-imogen-heap-guy-sigsworth-guitar-song-live-listen-824601/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=19 April 2019}} She gave a lecture at Boston Calling Music Festival in May 2019.{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Tyler |title=20 Music Festivals You Don't Want to Miss in 2019 |url=https://consequence.net/2019/04/20-music-festivals-you-dont-want-to-miss-in-2019/ |website=Consequence of Sound |access-date=4 December 2020 |date=30 April 2019}} In June 2019, she announced that she planned to release an album consisting of collaborations in 2020, the lead single of which would be one of three versions of "The Quiet".{{cite web |last1=Sacher |first1=Andrew |title=Imogen Heap releasing new album of collaborations, shares "The Quiet" with Baths |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/imogen-heap-releasing-new-album-of-collaborations-shares-the-quiet-with-baths/ |website=BrooklynVegan |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=21 June 2019}} She also performed on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts series that same month.{{cite magazine |last1=Spruch |first1=Kirsten |title=Imogen Heap Brings High-Tech Wizardry To NPR's Tiny Desk Concert |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8516824/imogen-heap-tiny-desk-concert-video |magazine=Billboard |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=20 June 2019}}

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She hosted the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in January 2020.{{cite magazine |last1=Rowley |first1=Glenn |title=Watch the 2020 Grammys Premiere Ceremony Hosted by Imogen Heap |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/awards/8548981/2020-grammys-premiere-ceremony-imogen-heap-details |magazine=Billboard |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=26 January 2020}} In April 2020, she appeared as a main artist on the commercial re-release of the 2009 song "I'm God" by Italian-American record producer Clams Casino, which samples Heap's song "Just for Now", and released the single "Phase and Flow" as part of a collaboration with IBM.{{cite web |last1=Schube |first1=Will |title=The Decade-Long Journey of Clams Casino's Iconic "I'm God" |url=https://www.complex.com/music/2020/05/clams-casino-im-god-interview |website=Complex |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=14 May 2020}}{{cite web |title=Imogen Heap Drops New Music Video for 'Phase and Flow' |url=https://www.pmstudio.com/music/music.html?page=20200611-11562 |website=PM Studio |access-date=26 December 2020 |language=ja |date=11 June 2020}} The following month, she performed during Royal Albert Hall's Royal Albert Home virtual concert series. Heap gave a livestreamed closing performance for the Virtual Design Festival held by Dezeen in July 2020.{{cite web |last1=Lindsay |first1=Calum |title=Live interview with musician Imogen Heap as part of VDF |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/10/imogen-heap-interview-vdf/ |website=Dezeen |access-date=1 December 2020 |language=en |date=10 July 2020}} During the COVID-19 pandemic, she launched a self-titled app for fans to view unreleased material and demos and participate in listening parties with her through Discord for a monthly fee. She released the single "Last Night of an Empire", which was inspired by conversations with fans about the end of Donald Trump's first presidency, in December 2020.{{cite web |last1=Rascoe |first1=Rachel |title=SXSW Music Panels Recap: Virtual Gigs Are Here to Stay |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2021-03-17/sxsw-music-panels-recap-virtual-gigs-are-here-to-stay/ |website=The Austin Chronicle |access-date=31 May 2025 |date=17 March 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Van Lindt |first1=Aernout |title=Nieuwe single Imogen Heap – "Last Night of an Empire" |url=https://www.dansendeberen.be/2020/12/12/nieuwe-single-imogen-heap-last-night-of-an-empire/ |website=Dansende Beren |access-date=26 December 2020 |language=nl |date=12 December 2020}}

Heap hosted a panel at SXSW about livestreaming and extended reality in March 2021. In late March 2022, she partnered with Symphonic Distribution to re-release previous material, including a handful of Frou Frou demos, which will compile into the Off Cuts release. The first single "A New Kind of Love (Demo)" was released in April of that year.{{Cite web |title=Symphonic Distribution Partners With Artist Imogen Heap For Global Distribution & Marketing |url=https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/216979/symphonic-distribution-partners-with-artist-imogen |access-date=1 April 2022 |website=All Access |language=en}}{{Dead link|date=May 2025}} In 2022, she produced the instrumental soundtrack for Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy's climate change–focused Audible podcast Climate of Change, on which she also appeared as a guest, with nature documentarian Dan O'Neill.{{cite web |last1=White |first1=Peter |title=Cate Blanchett Sets Climate Change Podcast At Audible |url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/cate-blanchett-sets-climate-change-podcast-audible-1234924523/ |website=Deadline |access-date=25 May 2025 |date=3 February 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Petit |first1=Stephanie |title=Prince William Is the Surprise Guest on Cate Blanchett's New Podcast About Climate Change |url=https://people.com/royals/prince-william-interviewed-cate-blanchett-climate-change/ |website=People |access-date=25 May 2025 |date=13 April 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Tabberer |first1=Jamie |title=Bimini and Dan O'Neill join LGBTQ eco activists on a mission to heal our ocean |url=https://www.attitude.co.uk/uncategorised/bimini-and-dan-oneill-join-lgbtq-eco-activists-on-a-mission-to-heal-our-ocean-403363/ |website=Attitude |access-date=27 May 2025 |date=8 April 2022}} Its soundtrack album, Chordata Bytes, was also released that year.{{cite web |last1=Sacher |first1=Andrew |last2=Hatfield |first2=Amanda |title=Imogen Heap returns with gothy new song "What Have You Done To Me?" |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/imogen-heap-returns-with-gothy-new-song-what-have-you-done-to-me/ |website=BrooklynVegan |access-date=27 May 2025 |date=1 November 2024}}

As part of a project called The Living Song, Heap released the single "What Have You Done To Me?" in November 2024, which was created using the melody of "Hide and Seek" and first previewed through the Calm app in January.{{cite web |last1=Hawthorne |first1=Katie |title='I'm empowering my song to go and make love with different people': Imogen Heap on how her AI twin will rewrite pop |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/16/im-empowering-my-song-to-go-and-make-love-with-different-people-imogen-heap-on-how-her-ai-twin-will-rewrite-pop |website=The Guardian |date=16 October 2024 |access-date=1 November 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Brodsky |first1=Rachel |title=Imogen Heap Shares New Song 'What Have You Done To Me?': Listen |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2286235/imogen-heap-what-have-you-done-to-me/music/ |website=Stereogum |access-date=24 May 2025 |date=1 November 2024}}

"Headlock" became popular on TikTok starting in October 2024, initially due to its use in video tributes to the horror video game Mouthwashing. It had been used in more than 135 thousand videos on the platform by January 2025.{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Abby |title=Imogen Heap Scores First Hot 100 Hit For 20-Year-Old Song Rediscovered By TikTok |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2293883/imogen-heap-scores-first-hot-100-hit-for-20-year-old-song-rediscovered-by-tiktok/news/ |website=Stereogum |access-date=21 May 2025 |date=22 January 2025}} That month, due to its increased popularity on streaming services, it became Heap's first career entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, debuting at number 100, and debuted on the Canadian Hot 100, also at number 100.{{cite magazine |last1=Zellner |first1=Xander |title=Hot 100 First-Timers: Imogen Heap Scores First Entry Ever, Thanks to 2005 Song 'Headlock' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/imogen-heap-headlock-hot-100-first-timers-1235880012/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=22 January 2025 |date=21 January 2025}}{{cite magazine |last1=Long Decter |first1=Rosie |title=Lady Gaga And Bruno Mars Score The First Post-Holiday No. 1 On The Canadian Hot 100 in 2025 |url=https://ca.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/lady-gaga-bruno-mars-canadian-hot-100 |magazine=Billboard Canada |access-date=19 May 2025 |date=8 January 2025}} It became her highest-charting and first top-40 entry on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 30 in February 2025.{{cite web |last1=Griffiths |first1=George |title=Gracie Abrams holds on to Number 1, Myles Smith scores second Top 10 single |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/gracie-abrams-thats-so-true-week-8-myles-smith-top-10/ |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=19 May 2025 |date=17 January 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Hodgkinson |first1=Will |title=Where are all the new No 1s? |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/how-to-score-a-no-1-single-it-might-take-20-years-pjsfjw8qb |website=The Times |access-date=19 May 2025 |date=11 March 2025}}

In January 2025, Heap spoke with FKA Twigs as part of Spotify's video podcast series Countdown To for her studio album Eusexua.{{cite web |last1=Kickham |first1=Dylan |title=The NSFW Word FKA Twigs Uses To Describe 'Eusexua' |url=https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/fka-twigs-imogen-heap-spotify-exclusive-clip |website=Nylon |access-date=23 May 2025 |date=20 January 2025}} Heap and Sigsworth reunited as Frou Frou in March 2025 to perform "Let Go" at Zach Braff's 20th anniversary concert for the Garden State soundtrack.{{cite web |last1=Cantor |first1=Matthew |title='Woodstock for elder millennials': the Garden State soundtrack anniversary concert |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/30/garden-state-soundtrack-anniversary-concert |website=The Guardian |access-date=21 May 2025 |date=30 March 2025}} Her side project Him Gone Ape, an anagram of her name and billed as her "playful" persona, began in April 2025.{{cite web |last1=Kaplan |first1=Ilana |title=How Imogen Heap Made 2014's 'Clean' with the 'Immaculate' Taylor Swift: 'She Is Extremely Efficient' (Exclusive) |url=https://people.com/imogen-heap-made-clean-with-immaculate-taylor-swift-exclusive-11723157 |website=People |access-date=24 May 2025 |date=28 April 2025}}

In October 2015, Heap created the blockchain-based platform Mycelia, which she created as a decentralized musical database for artists to share their music on and enforce smart contracts using Ethereum.{{cite magazine |last1=Heap |first1=Imogen |last2=Giles |first2=Matt |date=February 2016 |title=Imogen Heap & Hacking the Music Industry |url=https://archive.org/details/Popular_Science_February_2016/page/n45 |language=en |magazine=Popular Science |publisher=Bonnier Corporation |access-date=30 November 2020 |pages=44{{hyphen}}45}}{{cite web|last=Witt|first=Joanna|date=2 October 2015|title=Live stream: Imogen Heap releases Tiny Human using blockchain technology|url=https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2015/oct/02/live-stream-imogen-heap-releases-tiny-human-using-blockchain-technology|access-date=6 October 2015|website=The Guardian}} Mycelia's Creative Passport programme is a personalised profile for artists not signed to a major label.{{cite web |last1=Gelfand |first1=Zac |title=Imogen Heap announces first North American tour in nine years |url=https://consequence.net/2018/12/imogen-heap-north-american-tour-dates/ |website=Consequence of Sound |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=11 December 2018}} After previewing it at Web Summit 2024, Heap launched Auracles, a digital rights management platform, in December 2024.{{cite web |title='Harness the now': British singer Imogen Heap embraces AI |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/harness-the-now-british-singer-imogen-heap-embraces-ai |website=The Straits Times |access-date=23 May 2025 |location=Lisbon |date=17 November 2024}}

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In July 2011, Heap unveiled a pair of in-development, wired musical gloves at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were originally developed by Heap with Tom Mitchell, a University of the West of England, Bristol lecturer in music systems, and designed and sewn by Rachel Freire, a costume designer, over the course of the prior two and a half years.{{cite web|last=Aron|first=Jacob|date=11 July 2011|title=Imogen Heap's musical gloves mix sounds on the fly|url=https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/07/musical-gloves-mix-sounds-on-t.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803100948/http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/07/musical-gloves-mix-sounds-on-t.html|archive-date=3 August 2011|access-date=11 July 2011|website=New Scientist}} They were inspired by another pair of musical gloves developed by engineer Elly Jessop at MIT which Heap had witnessed during a visit to the university's Media Lab. Early versions of Heap's gloves had issues with latency and accuracy. In an interview, Heap stated, "The gloves help me embody those sounds which are hidden inside the computer, for me to physicalise them and bring them out so that I can play them and the audience members will understand what I am doing{{em dash}}rather than fiddling around on a keyboard and mouse which is not very clear{{em dash}}I could just be doing my emails."{{cite web |last1=Said-Moorhouse |first1=Lauren |last2=Hussein |first2=Leila |last3=Nurse |first3=Earl |title=Imogen Heap's 'magic gloves' make anyone a musician |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/12/technology/imogen-heap-mimu-music-gloves-blk/ |publisher=CNN |location=Essex, England |access-date=10 January 2021 |language=en |date=13 January 2015}}

The gloves, which eventually came to be known as the Mi.Mu gloves (a name derived from an abbreviation of "me" and "music"), are made from the material Yulex and consist of a hardware board at the wrist developed by Seb Madgwick with an inertial measurement unit used to determine the speed and orientation of the hands, flex sensors over the knuckles, a haptic motor, a removable battery, open palms and LED lights in between the thumb and forefinger which indicate whether or not the user is recording.{{cite web |last1=French |first1=Kristen |title=Make Music With the Wave of Your Hand |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/reviews/a10461/power-glove-makes-music-with-the-wave-of-a-hand-16686382/ |website=Popular Mechanics |access-date=11 January 2021 |language=en |date=11 April 2014}} Open Sound Control data is sent to a computer, which can perform a number of different actions, including adjusting volume, recording loops and filtering sound.{{cite web |last1=Fairs |first1=Marcus |title=Imogen Heap gloves that turn gestures into music |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2014/03/20/imogen-heap-funding-drive-for-gloves-that-turn-gestures-into-music/ |website=Dezeen |access-date=11 January 2021 |language=en |date=20 March 2014}}{{cite web |last1=Flood |first1=Kathleen |title=Imogen Heap's Musical "Touch" |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmd3qw/imogen-heaps-musical-touch |website=Vice |access-date=10 January 2021 |language=en |date=14 July 2011}} The gloves also come with a custom software called Glover that can be integrated with music production apps such as Ableton Live and Pro Tools, and use 802.11 Wi-Fi.{{cite web |title=The 100 greatest innovations of 2019 |url=https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/best-of-whats-new-2019/ |website=Popular Science |access-date=11 January 2021 |language=en |date=3 December 2019}}

Heap recorded her song "Me the Machine" using an early version of the gloves, debuting the single during a livestream on Earth Day in 2012. Also in 2012, she showcased the Mi.Mu gloves on an episode of the BBC television series Dara Ó Briain's Science Club.{{cite web |last1=Barkan |first1=Jonathan |title=Imogen Heap's Musical Gloves Are Way Cool! |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3288872/imogen-heaps-musical-gloves-are-way-cool |website=Bloody Disgusting |access-date=9 January 2021 |language=en |date=17 April 2014}} Heap began crowdfunding to produce more pairs of the gloves in April 2014 on Kickstarter, with a goal of £200,000, but the campaign failed to meet its target. However, the Mi.Mu project found investors who collaborated with Heap's team to continue to develop the gloves.{{cite web |last1=Magdaleno |first1=Alex |title=Imogen Heap Takes High-Tech Musical Glove to Kickstarter |url=https://mashable.com/2014/04/11/imogen-heap/ |website=Mashable |access-date=11 January 2021 |language=en |date=11 April 2014}} An early investor and user of the gloves was American singer Ariana Grande, who used the gloves during her second concert tour, the Honeymoon Tour, in 2015. In April 2019, the Mi.Mu gloves became publicly available for pre-order.{{cite web |last1=Cooper |first1=Daniel |title=Imogen Heap's musical gloves are finally available to everyone |url=https://www.engadget.com/2019-04-26-mi-mu-imogen-heap-musical-gloves-price-launch-date.html |website=Engadget |access-date=3 October 2020 |language=en |date=26 April 2019}} Popular Science included the Mi.Mu gloves on their list of the 100 greatest innovations of 2019.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Heap began work on a project called "Augmented Imogen", meant to be an artificial intelligence (AI) version of herself. In late 2024, she began developing Mogen, an AI assistant that began as a premium feature on her app, which she trains using Plaud Note, a ChatGPT-powered voice recorder. She has stated that it is based on "anything [she has] ever said or done" and designed to answer questions about her life and work for fans and to collaborate with her on future projects while replicating her voice.{{cite web |last1=Hawthorne |first1=Katie |title='I'm empowering my song to go and make love with different people': Imogen Heap on how her AI twin will rewrite pop |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/16/im-empowering-my-song-to-go-and-make-love-with-different-people-imogen-heap-on-how-her-ai-twin-will-rewrite-pop |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 May 2025 |date=16 October 2024}} She used Mogen to produce the final part of her 2024 song "What Have You Done to Me?" Paul G. Oliver, a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, wrote for The Conversation that Mogen was "a fascinating case study into the evolving relationship between music, technology and human creativity" and "a refreshing alternative" to fears of AI replacing human musicians, while Emma Keates of The A.V. Club derisively compared the project to Heap going "full Black Mirror", specifically likening it to the show's episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too".{{cite web |last1=Oliver |first1=Paul G. |title=Imogen Heap's AI revolution: how one British musician is shaping the future of music |url=https://theconversation.com/imogen-heaps-ai-revolution-how-one-british-musician-is-shaping-the-future-of-music-245086 |website=The Conversation |access-date=24 May 2025 |date=6 December 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Keates |first1=Emma |title=Imogen Heap has gone full Black Mirror |url=https://www.avclub.com/imogen-heap-ai-clone-mogen |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=23 May 2025 |date=16 October 2024}} Heap also developed a vocal model, AI.Mogen, which is based on her own voice and was used on her 2024 remix of Slovakian singer Karin Ann's song "False Gold".{{cite web |last1=Willings |first1=Sam |title=Imogen Heap uses her AI voice model, ai.mogen, to create a remix for the first time |url=https://musictech.com/news/music/imogen-heap-ai-voice-model-ai-mogen-karin-ann/ |website=MusicTech |publisher=BandLab Technologies |access-date=24 May 2025 |date=19 April 2024}}

Heap has praised the use of generative artificial intelligence in art and music and pushed back against concerns about its environmental impacts and its potential to replace human musicians, but has been critical of the lack of transparency about its training data, its potential for copyright infringement, and it being used to create music that replicates her preexisting compositions without proper credit.{{cite web |last1=Jenkins |first1=Ciaran |author1-link=Ciaran Jenkins |format=Video |title=Imogen Heap: AI 'lightens' my creativeness says singer songwriter |url=https://www.channel4.com/news/imogen-heap-ai-lightens-my-creativeness-says-singer-songwriter |website=Channel 4 News |publisher=Channel 4 |access-date=23 May 2025 |date=25 February 2025}} She has also advocated for the use of ethical AI. In 2024, Jen Lennon of The A.V. Club wrote that her "open-armed embrace of AI" was "a notable deviation from the way many other artists, writers, and actors have strongly denounced" AI, while Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone called her one of "vanishingly few" musicians to publicly advocate for the use of AI in music in 2025.{{cite web |last1=Lennon |first1=Jen |title=3 new songs and 3 new albums to check out this weekend |url=https://www.avclub.com/new-music-fridays-songs-albums-november-8 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=23 May 2025 |date=8 November 2024}}

Heap was one of one thousand artists credited on Is This What We Want?, a silent protest album consisting entirely of recordings of empty recording studios, which was released in February 2025 in response to the UK government's proposed changes to copyright laws that would allow artificial intelligence firms to train large language models (LLMs) on copyrighted music.{{cite web |last1=O'Connor |first1=Roisin |title=Kate Bush releases silent album with Imogen Heap and Damon Albarn |url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/news/kate-bush-silent-album-ai-protest-imogen-heap-copyright-law-b2704099.html |website=The Independent |access-date=19 May 2025 |date=25 February 2025}} She announced her partnership with the generative AI music company Jen for their StyleFilter program, which allows users to generate songs with the same "vibe" as licensed songs on the platform, at Web Summit in November 2024.{{cite magazine |last1=Robinson |first1=Kristin |title=Jen Unveils AI StyleFilter Tool To Capture Artists' Styles with Imogen Heap |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/imogen-heap-jen-ai-voice-music-models-capture-artist-stylefilter/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=24 May 2025 |date=14 November 2024}} She then released StyleFilters for her songs "Headlock", "Just for Now", "Goodnight and Go", "Last Night of an Empire", and "What Have You Done to Me?" through Auracles in April 2025.{{cite web |last1=Millman |first1=Ethan |title=Imogen Heap Launches AI Music Tools With AI Platform Jen |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/imogen-heap-launches-ai-music-tools-on-jen-1236199418/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=19 May 2025 |date=24 April 2025}}{{cite magazine |last1=Hiatt |first1=Brian |title=Imogen Heap Just Went Viral With 'Headlock' -- Now She's Letting You Borrow Its Vibe Via AI |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/imogen-heap-headlock-tiktok-ai-jen-1235324011/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=23 May 2025 |date=24 April 2025}}

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In the late 1990s, Heap's music was largely alternative rock. However, after forming and subsequently disbanding the electronic duo Frou Frou, whose work on their sole album to date, Details, was mainly electropop, her music became primarily based in pop, specifically electropop, art pop, alt-pop, synth-pop.{{cite web |last1=Halle |first1=Karina |title=Interview: Imogen Heap |url=https://consequence.net/2010/08/interview-imogen-heap/ |website=Consequence of Sound |access-date=4 December 2020 |quote=I don't know my ins and outs of classical composers in any way, but I did learn that kind of counterpoint and harmony and how things fit with low instruments and high instruments, and maybe those things did seep into the way that I make "Pop" music. |date=13 August 2010}}{{cite web |url=https://nytimes.com/2006/12/10/arts/music/10play.html?ref=arts |title=A Universe of Artists Who Create Their Own Sound Worlds |work=The New York Times |date=10 December 2006 |access-date=27 September 2014}}{{cite web |last1=Sinagra |first1=Laura |title=With Her Synthesizer, She Mesmerizes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/arts/music/with-her-synthesizer-she-mesmerizes.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=13 January 2006}} She has written, produced and engineered most of her music on her own. She has also stated that she rarely listens to music, but draws inspiration from TED conferences.{{cite web |last1=Halle |first1=Karina |title=Interview: Imogen Heap |url=https://consequence.net/2010/08/interview-imogen-heap/ |website=Consequence of Sound |access-date=4 December 2020 |quote=Well, for instance, I just got back from this conference called TED, which happens every six months. One in California and one in the UK. I first went when I was 26. I got invited to sing with Frou Frou at their Monterey one, and now I've been twice to their one in Oxford. And I am totally just inspired by that. Inspired because you are surrounded by these incredible people doing all these amazing things and have so many fantastic views and outlets and really insightful ways of connecting issues together and how to solve them. |date=13 August 2010}}

Heap plays a number of instruments, including the piano, clarinet, cello, guitar, keytar, drums, waterphone, and array mbira. She extensively uses manipulated electronic sounds as an integral part of her music. She also mixes ambient sound into her music and has commented that "certain sounds give the music a width and a space, and that's important." CNN stated that Heap is known for "her distinctive fusion of soft acoustic sounds, electronica and tech".

Heap has said that she "really [doesn't] like writing lyrics" and called them "a pain in the ass", describing herself as feeling "much more" comfortable producing.{{cite web |last1=Vaziri |first1=Aidin |title=Pop Quiz: Imogen Heap |url=https://www.sfgate.com/music/popquiz/article/pop-quiz-imogen-heap-2575326.php |website=SFGate |access-date=5 May 2025 |quote= You paid for and made this album yourself. Do you find it funny that the only major criticism anyone has is that it sounds too polished? |date=30 October 2005}} Heap has compared her lyrics to "secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mum or my dad" and stated that they are often written "in the heat of the moment [about] something [that] has just happened".

Heap has been regarded as influential in pop music, specifically in electropop and for using technology in her music. NPR's Lindsay Kimbell referred to Heap as a "pioneer of electronic pop" in 2018, while Stephen Thompson said in 2025 on Morning Edition that hers was "a pioneering electro-pop career that stretches back roughly three decades".{{cite web |last1=Kimball |first1=Lindsay |title=The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+ (Imogen Heap, "Hide and Seek") |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/627396076/turning-the-tables-the-200-greatest-songs-by-21st-century-women-part-3 |publisher=NPR |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=30 July 2018}} Billboard called Heap an "electro-pop innovator".{{cite magazine |title=Ask A Gay Icon: Chaz Cardigan Gets Career Advice From Imogen Heap |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/9402786/chaz-cardigan-imogen-heap-career-advice/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=23 June 2020}} In 2018, Stereogum{{'}}s Margaret Farrell referred to Heap as "pop's unsung pioneer" and "an electronic pop mastermind", going on to describe her as "a mystical force that has loomed over pop music for nearly two decades". In 2019, The New York Times similarly called Heap a "pop pioneer" whose work "has established her as an innovator in musical technology".{{cite web |title=12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/arts/music/nyc-this-weekend-pop-rock-jazz.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=2 May 2019}} For Paper, Matt Moen called Heap "the Nikola Tesla of pop music" in that "[her] influence in the field of pop has largely gone unappreciated in her own time". Various outlets, including NPR and New Statesman, have called Heap a "tech pioneer".{{cite web |last1=Peirson-Hagger |first1=Ellen |title=Imogen Heap: "I'm so frustrated with the music industry" |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2020/09/imogen-heap-i-m-so-frustrated-music-industry |website=New Statesman |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=4 September 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Powers |first1=Ann |title=First Listen: Imogen Heap, 'Sparks' |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/08/10/338018328/first-listen-imogen-heap-sparks |publisher=NPR |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=10 August 2014}} Patrick Ryan of USA Today wrote that Heap "pioneered" the subgenre of folktronica, which combines elements of folk music and electronica.{{cite web |last1=Ryan |first1=Patrick |title=5 things to know about viral sensation Maggie Rogers, from speechless Pharrell to 'SNL' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2019/01/18/viral-star-maggie-rogers-new-album-pharrell-snl/2595700002/ |website=USA Today |access-date=5 December 2020 |date=18 January 2019}}

Heap is also known for her contributions to film and television soundtracks.{{cite magazine |last1=Greenblatt |first1=Leah |title=Speak for Yourself |url=http://ew.com/article/2005/11/07/speak-yourself/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=5 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014034643/http://ew.com/article/2005/11/07/speak-yourself/ |archive-date=14 October 2017 |date=7 November 2005}} She became known as an early adoptee of social media, particularly Twitter, Myspace, and vlogging, to promote her music and interact with her fans.{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Caroline |title=Imogen Heap: Ellipse |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/14/imogen-heap-cd-review |website=The Guardian |access-date=12 May 2025 |date=13 August 2009 |quote=London songwriter Imogen Heap is better known for her skill in employing the internet to push her career than for her actual music.}} She has expressed praise toward social media's role in music, stating in 2010 that, because of it, "anyone and everyone can get creative and get their voice heard". She is also known for her devoted fanbase, with Ian Youngs describing them for BBC News as "substantial" and "among the most devoted and active in music" in 2010.{{cite web |last1=Youngs |first1=Ian |title=Imogen Heap reveals tour struggle |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/10220002 |website=BBC News |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=4 June 2010}} Her renewed success in 2025 through the online popularity of "Headlock" led to an influx of Gen Z fans of her music. Her fashion style has been described as "kooky", "theatrical",{{cite web |last1=Davis |first1=Johnny |title=One woman band |url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/one-woman-band-vnngh22860r |website=The Times |access-date=21 May 2025 |date=3 June 2006}} "weird",{{cite web |last1=Broverman |first1=Neal |title=Two days in the Coachella Valley |url=https://www.advocate.com/news/2006/05/05/two-days-coachella-valley |website=Advocate |access-date=21 May 2025 |date=5 May 2006}} and "flamboyant". Cory Albertson of Paste described her as having "an outlandish visual persona". Her frog-themed outfit at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards has been included on several lists of the most outrageous and iconic Grammys outfits of all time.{{cite web |last1=Friedl |first1=Ruthie |last2=Bowenbank |first2=Starr |title=The 75 Most Outrageous Grammys Outfits |url=https://www.elle.com/fashion/celebrity-style/news/g8573/most-outrageous-grammys-outfits/ |website=ELLE |access-date=25 November 2020 |date=2 February 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Williamson |first1=Sue |title=19 of the Most Iconic (And Outrageous) Grammys Looks of All Time |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/most-iconic-grammy-looks |website=Teen Vogue |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en-us |date=24 January 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Stephens |first1=Britt |title=100 of the Most Iconic Fashion Moments at the Grammy Awards, All Right Here |url=https://www.popsugar.com/fashion/photo-gallery/7183481/image/7195147/Imogen-Heap |website=Popsugar Fashion |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=26 January 2020}}{{cite web |title=Grammy Awards fashion: Most outrageous outfits |date=20 January 2014 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/grammy-awards-fashion-most-outrageous-outfits/18/ |publisher=CBS News |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en}}

Heap has been described as highly influential on pop, hip hop, and R&B musicians{{cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Stephen |title=Familiar faces top the pop charts, but there's a real surprise near the bottom |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5276087/imogen-heaps-song-headlock-hits-billboard-charts-20-years-after-it-was-released |publisher=NPR |access-date=21 May 2025 |date=29 January 2025}} and been cited as a musical inspiration by Ariana Grande,{{cite magazine |last1=Lipshutz |first1=Jason |title=Gimme Five: Ariana Grande's Most Inspirational Female Singers |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5748215/gimme-five-ariana-grandes-most-inspirational-female-singers |magazine=Billboard |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=9 October 2013}} Bebe Rexha,{{cite web |last1=Rosene |first1=Madeline |title=Bebe Rexha: Unwrapped |url=http://lefairmag.com/bebe-rexha-unwrapped/ |website=LEFAIR Magazine |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=7 January 2019}} Ellie Goulding,{{cite web |last1=Smyth |first1=David |title=Ellie Goulding interview: 'I was never allowed to show my sexuality' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/ellie-goulding-interview-2020-brightest-blue-a4494801.html |website=Evening Standard |access-date=29 November 2020 |language=en |date=10 July 2020}} Kacey Musgraves,{{cite magazine |last1=Hudak |first1=Joseph |title=Kacey Musgraves on Why She Calls Her 'Golden Hour' Album 'Space Country' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/kacey-musgraves-on-why-she-calls-her-golden-hour-album-space-country-205563/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=29 March 2018}} Pentatonix,{{cite magazine |last1=Vain |first1=Madison |title=The 7 acts that add up to Pentatonix |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/10/22/7-acts-add-pentatonix/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=EN |date=22 October 2015}}{{cite web |last1=Greenburg |first1=Zack O'Malley |title=Pentatonix: Everything You Need To Know About The World's Biggest A Cappella Act |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2016/01/05/pentatonix-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-worlds-biggest-a-cappella-act/?sh=638d01a3548b |website=Forbes |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=5 January 2016}} Chloe Bailey,{{cite web |title=Chloe x Halle Take The Sister Test |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/watch/video/106557 |website=BuzzFeed |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=12 June 2020}} Empress Of,{{cite web |last1=Burke |first1=Cait Emma |title=Empress of Is Her Own Queen |url=https://acclaimmag.com/music/empress-of-is-her-own-queen/ |website=Acclaim Magazine |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en-us |date=3 May 2019}} Dawn Richard,{{cite web |last1=Soetan |first1=Sope |title=Interview: Dawn Richard on Bringing 'Blackheart' to the UK, Plans for Next Album and Danity Kane's Final Release |url=http://ymmwt.com/dawn-2/interview-dawn-richard-on-bringing-blackheart-to-the-uk-plans-for-next-album-and-danity-kanes-final-release/ |website=YMMWT |access-date=9 January 2021 |language=en |date=3 April 2015}} Jamila Woods,{{cite web |last1=J'na |first1=Jefferson |title=NEXT: Jamila Woods Soldiers On For Her City And Her People In Her Music |url=https://www.vibe.com/2016/10/next-jamila-woods-interview |website=Vibe |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |date=27 October 2016}} Muna,{{cite web |last1=Dunn |first1=Frankie |title=Positive thinking with Muna, your new best band friends |url=https://i-d.co/article/positive-thinking-with-muna-your-new-best-band-friends/ |website=i-D |access-date=17 December 2020 |language=en |date=20 April 2017}} Mree,{{cite web |title=From The Desk of Mree: Imogen Heap |url=http://magnetmagazine.com/2013/08/09/from-the-desk-of-mree-imogen-heap/ |website=Magnet |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=9 August 2013}} Woodes,{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Joseph |title=Five Artists That Help Shape Woodes' Sound |url=http://stoneyroads.com/2017/03/woodes-shares-5-artists-that-help-shape-her-sound/ |website=Stoney Roads |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=10 March 2017}} Ben Hopkins,{{cite magazine |last1=Wainwright |first1=Rufus |title=PWR BTTM & Rufus Wainwright Talk Sexuality, Trump & 'The Future of Diversity in Music' |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7717061/pwr-bttm-rufus-wainwright-interview |magazine=Billboard |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=9 March 2017}} Matthew Parker,{{cite web |last1=Clarks |first1=Jessie |title=TCB Exclusive: Matthew Parker Talks Inspiration Behind 'Daydreamer' |url=https://www.thechristianbeat.org/index.php/interviews/5379-tcb-exclusive-matthew-parker-shares-about-daydreamer |website=The Christian Beat |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en-gb |date=23 October 2018}} Red Moon,{{cite web |last1=Ju |first1=Shirley |title=Red Moon - Sophomore EP 'Phase 2:22' |url=https://flaunt.com/content/red-moon-phase-222 |website=Flaunt |access-date=22 September 2021 |language=en |date=20 September 2021}} Michelle Chamuel,{{cite magazine |title='Voice': Meet the Top 16! |url=https://ew.com/gallery/voice-meet-top-16/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=EN |date=1 May 2013}} Chaz Cardigan, Laura Doggett,{{cite web |last1=Jana |first1=Fp |title=Who's That Girl: Meet British Songstress Laura Doggett |url=https://blog.freepeople.com/2015/08/whos-girl-meet-british-songstress-laura-doggett/ |website=Free People Blog |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=28 August 2015}} GoodLuck,{{cite web |last1=Meltz |first1=Darren |title=Meet GoodLuck – South Africa's Most Exciting Live Electronic Band |url=https://morethanfoodmag.com/meet-goodluck-south-africas-exciting-live-electronic-band/ |website=More Than Food Magazine |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=1 March 2018}} Kool Kojak,{{cite web |title=Two Minutes With ... KoolKojak |url=https://www.worcestermag.com/2017/05/04/two-minutes-koolkojak |website=Worcester Magazine |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=4 May 2017}} and Stars and Rabbit.{{cite web |last1=Mazur |first1=Christine |title=On Uncompromising Creativity and Hugging Trees: Exploring the Constellation of Indonesia's Stars and Rabbit |url=https://lilystars-records.com/2015/05/15/on-uncompromising-creativity-and-hugging-trees-exploring-the-constellation-of-indonesias-stars-and-rabbit/ |website=Lilystars Records |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=15 May 2015}} Heap's songs have also been covered by artists including Pentatonix{{cite web |last1=Boddez |first1=Ben |title=Pentatonix makes a strong case for a cappella as a stadium act in a career-spanning set at Rogers Arena |url=https://www.straight.com/music/1262211/pentatonix-make-strong-case-cappella-stadium-act-career-spanning-set-rogers-arena |website=The Georgia Straight |access-date=28 November 2020 |language=en |date=4 July 2019}} and Kelly Clarkson,{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Caroline |title=Kelly Clarkson: Wrapped in Red – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/28/kelly-clarkson-wrapped-in-red-review |website=The Guardian |access-date=28 November 2020 |language=en |date=28 November 2013}} and have been sampled by artists including Grande, Jason Derulo, Wiz Khalifa,{{cite web |last1=Kochhar |first1=Nazuk |title=Imogen Heap never stopped going in |url=https://www.thefader.com/2018/11/05/imogen-heap-interview-harry-potter-score-blockchain |website=The Fader |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=5 November 2018}} Mac Miller, Clams Casino, Lil B,{{cite web |last1=O'Neal |first1=Sean |title=Clams Casino pushed hip-hop into the cloud |url=https://www.avclub.com/clams-casino-pushed-hip-hop-into-the-cloud-1798278350 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en-us |date=7 April 2015}} Ryan Hemsworth, Deniro Farrar,{{cite web |title=Ryan Hemsworth collaborator Deniro Farrar drops new mixtape The Patriarch |url=https://www.factmag.com/2013/03/11/ryan-hemsworth-collaborator-deniro-farrar-drops-new-mixtape-the-patriarch/ |website=Fact Magazine |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=11 March 2013}} Suicideboys,{{cite web |last1=Darville |first1=Jordan |title=Listen to Imogen Heap's score for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |url=https://www.thefader.com/2018/11/02/imogen-heap-score-soundtrack-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child |website=The Fader |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=2 November 2018}} ASAP Rocky, MellowHype, Trinidad James{{cite web |last1=Battan |first1=Carrie |title=Mixdown: Trinidad James, Disclosure, Gucci Mane |url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/41-mixdown-trinidad-james-disclosure-gucci-mane/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en-us |date=15 August 2013}} and XV. The sampling of her songs has been considered influential in the subgenre of cloud rap.{{cite web |last1=Lawrence |first1=Eddy |title=What happened to the hip-hop micro-genre cloud rap? |url=https://www.redbull.com/us-en/whatever-happened-to-hip-hop-sub-genre-cloud-rap |website=Red Bull |access-date=25 November 2020 |language=en |date=9 April 2018}}

Heap began dating film director Michael Lebor in 2012.{{cite web |last1=Hodgkinson |first1=Will |title=Imogen Heap: the pop star with music at her fingertips |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/imogen-heap-the-pop-star-with-music-at-her-fingertips-9wx2kqvvsrc |website=The Times |access-date=1 December 2020 |language=en |date=12 August 2014}} In June 2014, Heap announced in her video blog that she was pregnant with her first child with Lebor. She gave birth to their daughter later that year.{{cite web|url=http://imogenheap.com/?asset=1064|title=I M O G E N * H E A P|website=Imogen Heap|access-date=3 November 2018}}{{better source needed|date=November 2020}}

Heap was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite web |last1=Hawthorne |first1=Katie |title='I'm empowering my song to go and make love with different people': Imogen Heap on how her AI twin will rewrite pop |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/16/im-empowering-my-song-to-go-and-make-love-with-different-people-imogen-heap-on-how-her-ai-twin-will-rewrite-pop |website=The Guardian |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=16 October 2024}}

{{Main|Imogen Heap discography}}

{{see also|Frou Frou (band)#Discography}}

Studio albums

• I Megaphone (1998)
• Speak for Yourself (2005)
• Ellipse (2009)
• Sparks (2014)

• Ellipse Tour (2009–2010)
• Mycelia Tour (2019–2020)

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