Dark Matter presents...ELLiS·D + support

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Drummer-turned-solo artist ELLiS·D spent their formative years flailing their limbs across the tattered kits of the UK and Europe's basement scene before starting out their solo project in 2022. The ensuing eighteen months has seen them in a state of consistent gigging and touring throughout the sweaty dives of the continent bringing their raw, mercurial live performance to stages from London to Luxembourg, Bristol to Brussels, Kendal to Kusel.

Backed by a near continuously shifting set of session musicians on tour, in the studio ELLiS·D channels the workhorse-like energy of fellow multi-instrumentalists Ty Segall, Prince and Kevin Parker to mould a sound that once feels familiar but also completely their own. Embodying the extravagance and glam-pop sensibilities of the likes of Marc Bolan and New York Dolls, with the dark lyrical sensitivity and intensity of The Smiths and Jehnny Beth, ELLiS·D creates something uniquely contradictory. Jangly, threadbare riffs weave their way through CAN inspired rhythmic pulses as hook-smeared repetitions and explosive, abstract vocal acrobatics flow and fight their way into psych-driven instrumentals.

"Enigmatic solo artist ELLiS·D pulsates with a breakneck, anxiety-ridden rumble of new wave rock, delivering a propulsive and unrelenting energy that is both captivating and insidiously direct" - The Daily Music Report

"Baroque post-punk shivers" - Louder Than War

"Insistent energy and wonderful yelping vocals" - Tom Robinson BBC Radio 6