Unplugged | – |
Cover band | – |
Members | – |
May / 2018 | • | Liverpool Sound City | Liverpool, GB |
Label / Release | Type | Year | |
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Mellowtone Records | |||
Adult Fiction | Album | 2017 | |
Daylight Ghosts | Album | 2016 | |
Grace & Danger | EP | 2016 |
Some people call it folk, some just call it good old fashioned song craft. Currently based in Liverpool, Ellis blends streetscape narrative-noir with a classic British acoustic approach. Using a blend of rhythmic attack and finger-quick lucidity, his sound has been described as “a conversation between Elvis Costello and John Martyn.”
Adult Fiction is the latest album release from Ellis - his third in the space of two years - following the streetscape narrative-noir debut of Grace & Danger (April 2016) and it’s surrealist-folk follow-up, Daylight Ghosts (November 2016).
On his songwriting Ellis says: “I see my songs as chapters and scenes. My albums as movies and books. Except, in this film, these stories are true…”