Dallas Kent is a collaboration between London-based composer/producer Ian Williams (originally from Canterbury, Kent) and singer Crystal Brown (from Dallas, Texas). It started in the late 2010s when Ian was looking for a singer to work with on some of his dark electronic pop songs, with Brown happening to live one street away from his studio in Hackney, East London. ​ They swiftly recorded a considerable amount of material, but had to shelve the project when Crystal relocated