Kanye West, The National, and Ellie Goulding are among the first artists announced to contribute to Metamorphoses, a forthcoming compilation album from Global Citizen. Helmed by Mumford & Sons' Ben Lovett and Global Citizen co-founder and CEO Hugh Evans, the project will include 12 new songs with crowd-sourced lyrics from around the world. More artists will be announced soon; lyrical submissions are open until March 31, ahead of the record's release this fall. Watch a trailer below.

The Global Citizen project aims to end extreme poverty by 2030, as well as tackling climate change. Last year, the Global Citizen Festival took place in New York.

"We are very excited to explore the creative possibilities of the Metamorphoses project, setting the words of others to music and bringing communities together to fight poverty," said the National's Aaron Dessner in a press release. "Global Citizen is doing very important, pro-social work and we are honored to be able to contribute to it."

In the press release, Lovett said: