Eli & Fur

Hurtwood House, then a decade of house

Eliza Noble and Jennifer Skillman met as teenagers at Hurtwood House sixth form and have worked together as Eli & Fur since 2012. Before that they were employees rather than artists, writing and singing at a music production company — material they have since described as proper cheese pop, written to order for other people. The shift into electronic music was a change of authorship as much as of genre. From that point the songs were theirs, built in Ableton, with both of them singing on the records.

Their debut single, 'You're So High', arrived in 2013. It reached the top three on Hype Machine and has since passed 70 million YouTube views, a scale that very few first releases from an unsigned pair ever reach, and it still turns up in sets more than a decade later. The Illusions EP followed the same year, California Love in 2015 and Night Blooming Jasmine in 2018, spread across Defected, Spinnin' Deep and their own NYX Music imprint.

The album that needed the touring to stop

For years an album was discussed and then postponed, because the diary never cleared. It took the pandemic to clear it. Skillman came back from Los Angeles to be with her family and spent the year writing every day, without the deadlines and the flights that had previously eaten the studio time. Roughly half the resulting record was written in lockdown and the rest finished there.

Found In The Wild was released on 25 June 2021 on Anjunadeep, and it was deliberately built as two halves. Found is the song-based, vocal-led side, the part that comes straight out of their songwriting background. In The Wild is the darker, club-facing material they play out. The duo's framing of the whole thing was that a person has to get lost to be found — which is a neat line, but it also describes the structure accurately: the record is one act shown twice.

Dreamscapes, and the first time they played live

The second album, Dreamscapes, came on 27 September 2024 — fifteen tracks, released through [PIAS] Électronique rather than Anjunadeep, and the product of about two years of work. The subject is the hours between dusk and dawn: the club, and then the long solitary comedown after it. The first single, 'Insomnia', was described by the pair as the start of a new journey. 'Golden Eyes and Tears' followed on 23 May, and they were explicit about what it was for — the reflective bit once it is all over, after chasing the sunrise home.

Dreamscapes also produced the first live Eli & Fur shows. They announced three headline performances — London, Los Angeles and New York — billed as their only live dates of 2024, mixing album material with older catalogue. That distinction still holds: the live show is the exception, and everything else on the calendar is a DJ set. The difference is worth knowing before buying a ticket, because the two are priced and staged nothing alike.

Dreams at Dusk: a series, not a routed tour

From 2025 the pair have run Dreams at Dusk, a recurring set of outdoor shows organised around the sunset rather than around a conventional tour route. Where a standard support-and-headline run books the same production into a line of similar rooms, this books the hour: the shows land in locations chosen for the view, and the set is expected to begin in warm territory while there is still light and get harder once it is dark. San Francisco's Treasure Island hosted one in August 2025; Berlin's Ritter Butzke ran an open-air edition on 8 August 2026; Miami's ZeyZey has one on 19 September 2026.

The series has become the recording project as well as the live one. 'Strange', released on 10 March 2026 through PIAS, was written on a piano in a San Rafael Airbnb, the two of them alone, in the middle of the West Coast Dreams at Dusk run. It is noticeably darker than their usual register — layered synths, breathy vocals, less of the ethereal gloss. 'One That You Love' followed as the second release of 2026 and pushed back towards the dancefloor while keeping the vocal writing intact. Both trailed the EP Dreams At Dusk Part II, announced for 29 May 2026 on PIAS.

Where they stand, September 2026

The most recent release sits outside that campaign. 'Ceremony', with the vocalist Tailor, came out on 14 August 2026 on Boom Records — a deep house track about devotion and infatuation, built on echoing synths and an uneasy beat under a smooth vocal. It arrived after a festival year that took in EDC Mexico, EDC Las Vegas and Miami Music Week.

The autumn diary is short and heavily American. Seven dates are listed across three countries: Celine in Orlando on 18 September, ZeyZey in Miami on 19 September, Decca Live in Jacksonville on 3 October, Ministry of Sound in London on 9 October with Eynka, Time Nightclub in Costa Mesa on 23 October, the Mystical Mysteries Festival in Mexico City on 30 October and 1015 Folsom in San Francisco on 13 November.

The shape of that run says something about the act at this point. One London headline show against six North American ones is the booking pattern of a duo whose audience grew fastest in the United States, and the venues are working clubs rather than theatres. Nothing about it reads as an attempt to scale up quickly; it reads as a pair keeping a circuit warm between records, with the outdoor series carrying the ambition and the club dates carrying the year.