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Picking up where he left off on debut EP ‘We Are The Last Generation’ last December, ‘Drifting’ was recorded by ELLiS·D and producer Maximilian in his shared DIY studio space known to its inhabitants only as ‘The Carwash’ around the same time of his first UK headline tour toward the end of 2021.

Best known on the south coast as the manic drummer of Strange Cages who set about flailing his limbs across the tattered kits of Brighton’s basement DIY scene, the solo project of ELLiS·D leaps between psychedelic jangle, kraut rock and taut post-punk attack with a bristling energy. Showcasing a range of influence from the likes of Jaki Liebezeit (CAN) and Faye Milton (Savages) to the bittersweet romanticism of Nick Cave, sweeping melodies overlay fierce, motorik rhythms as ELLiS·D flirts with tongue-in-cheek 21st Century hysteria of a future slipping slowly from our grasp.

New single ‘Drifting’ soars in with a magnetic bassline as shimmering guitars add a layer of gloss to ELLiS·D’s sound, before lifting off to a ethereal dream-like space in the full seven minutes keeping the listener on their toes whilst the pounding and hard-hitting drums also keeps the track firmly grounded. Drawing on the themes of ‘Drifting’, ELLiS·D offers:

“I wanted to further explore the playful instrumental side on ‘We Are The Last Generation’ whilst shadowing my previous approach to the EP. There’s less of doom-laden appearance to the single but also less of a irony to the lyrical approach about processing stories of the darkest nature in the media almost every day of our lives, and how that can often make it feel as though the line between reality and fantasy is permanently blurred.”

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