ELLiS·D

“Imagine if David Byrne and David Bowie merged in a bizarre scene from a 1980s sci-fi bonanza. Then imagine if that new beast wandered into a goth club during that same era. Half glam rock, half neurotic punk but fully stylistic in its musical carnage. The result is ELLiS-D.” Far Out

“consistently reinventing old rock into his own distinguishable tracks that sound unlike much you’ve heard before.“ So Young Magazine 

“New Banger” NME

“a high-altitude jet stream of quivering post-punk, art-rock debauchery, rattling you out of your chair and under the heel of Dickson’s intoxicating, eldritch yowls.” Hard of Hearing

“Haunting. Spooky. Energetic…just have a listen” Rodeo

Ahead of EP launch shows in London and Brighton, and an EU tour supporting Fat Dog commencing next month, Goth-punk ELLiS·D releases Spill EP and shares new single ‘Insect’ - out today (21st March).

Written and recorded entirely by ELLiS·D himself (aka Ellis Dickson) at Hackney Road studios with Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Jenny Beth), Spill serves up a seven song jetstream of rocket-fuelled, goth-tinged glam-punk, infested with 21st century paranoia. 

Distilling the essence of an “exhilarating” (Far Out) live show that has already ushered in numerous tours of the UK and Europe, as well as festival appearances at Kendal Calling and Left of The Dial, the EP comes off the back of singles ‘Drifting’, ‘Humdrum’, and ‘Shakedown’ that have accumulated praise from BBC Radio 6Music (Steve Lamacq, Emily Pilbeam, New Music Fix), Radio X (John Kennedy), as well as from a cornucopia of press champions: So Young, NME, Far Out, Clunk, Hard of Hearing, God is In The TV, Rodeo, When The Horn Blows, Earmilk and Backseat Mafia among them.

Offering more insight on new single ‘Insect’, and the EP as a whole, Ellis says: “Insect is a cry for no one, the hopeless pursuit of self-importance crushed under foot by every other generations own inflated sense of their significance in time. It’s a happy song.”

“The Spill EP is a not so subtle expression of conflict between personality and character. “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.”

The brainchild of drummer-turned-solo musician Ellis Dickson, ELLiS·D has garnered a growing reputation in the past 12 months for a tireless touring schedule and increasingly electric live shows, recently described as “one of the most exhilarating live sets I’ve seen in months.” by Far Out Magazine.
Backed by continuously shifting set of Brighton musicians - in addition to playing drums across the world with Fat Dog and Johnny Borrell’s Jealous Nostril project - his solo show has performed with the likes of Razorlight (at Brighton Dome and Eventim Apollo) The Goa Express, Flip Top Head, Melts, Plantoid, Vinyl Williams, Youth Sector and The DSM IV.

Across 2023’s ‘Hullo, Reality’ EP,  and a string of singles across last year , all released via celebrated boutique Brighton label Crafting Room Recordings (Ideal Living, SoftTop) Dickson has won radio airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music (Steve Lamacq, New Music FixEmily Pilbeam, Tom Robinson) and John Kennedy (Radio X), as well as backing from across the UK indie press outlets. ELLiS·D has also reached the longlists for Green Man Rising and Glastonbury Emerging Talent competitions, this year and last, respectively - performing his biggest festival slot to date at the Tim Burgess-curated stage at Kendal Calling last Summer.