ELLiS·D has today released his new single titled ‘Drifting’ from his upcoming EP ‘Spill’ dropping March 21st via Crafting Room Recordings.
Clocking in at over seven minutes, the track remains interesting and feels more like a journey than a song. What I mean is, there is always something going on for the listener, as well as the mind. This is a thinking person’s track. Almost in a prog rock sort of way, but definitely within the realms of the indie music genre.
Stopping and starting in all the right places while consistently retaining that drone hook effect, ‘Drifting’ is a magnum opus sonic art as much as it is a statement for originality.
About ELLiS·D
An explosion of whiplash riffs, psychedelic break downs, false endings and rip-roaring returns, ‘Drifting’ distills the essence of ELLiS·D’s “exhilarating” (Far Out) live show into a frenetic 7 minute voyage – A live show that last year ushered in two nationwide headline tours, festival appearances at Kendal Calling and Left of The Dial and a two-week tour of Europe with Fat Dog, to be followed up with a second leg this spring.
Offering more insight on the track, ELLiS·D (real name Ellis Dickson) says: “Drifting is by far my favorite track to play live. It has been through a fair few iterations, gets everyone going and always ends up going somewhere slightly different with each performance.”
Written and performed entirely by ELLiS·D himself (aka Ellis Dickson) at Hackney Road studios with Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Jenny Beth), ‘Drifting’ offers the closing track of ELLiS·D’s upcoming Spill EP, a seven song jetstream of rocket-fuelled, goth-tinged glam-punk, infested with 21st century paranoia:
“The Spill EP is a not so subtle expression of conflict between personality and character”, Ellis explains, “An uneasy alliance of nervous apprehension and joyful abandon. Throwing myself dramatically onto the funeral pyre one moment, only to get up and frantically twist my limbs about the next.”
Teasing the record with a clutch of singles in 2024, ELLiS·D second EP already comes backed with praise from BBC Radio 6Music (New Music Fix, Tom Robinson, Emily Pilbeam), Radio X (John Kennedy), So Young Magazine, NME, Far Out, Hard of Hearing and Rodeo. He launches the EP in London, with a special in-store performance at Camberwell’s Dash The Henge on 21st March.
Tracklist
- Chasing The Blue
- Humdrum
- Spill
- Insect
- Shakedown
- Homecoming Queen
- Drifting
Featured image by Freddie Willatt.
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https://ellissd.bandcamp.com/