Brighton based Goth-punk ELLiS-D has just released his hotly anticipated Spill EP and shared new single ‘Insect’ – out today (21st March). He’s been wowing crowds on the live circuit with his timeless, incendiary, sets. His ever increasing hoard of fans will be eager to hear this track ahead of EP launch shows in London and Brighton and an EU tour supporting Fat Dog next month.
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 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.
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.”
Spill EP by ELLiS·D out 21st March via Crafting Room Recordings . Order here
Tour Dates:
MARCH
21 London (UK), Dash The Henge (EP Instore Release)
26 Brighton, Green Door Store
APRIL
2 / Le Havre (FR), McDaid’s
3 Gent (BE) , Wintercircus *
5 Lyon (FR), Le Transbordeur *
8 Munich (DE), Import Export *
9 Nuremberg (DE), Soft Spot *
11 Mainz (DE), Kulturklub Schon Schoen *
15 Esch-sur-Alzette (LUX), Rockhal Club *
16 Rotterdam (NL), Annabel *
19 Troyes (FR), The Message
MAY
27 Mannheim (DE), Altes Volksbad
28 Kusel (DE), Kinett
29 Paris (FR), Supersonic Block Party Festival
20 Paris (FR), Supersonic Block Party Festival
JUNE
14 Ipswich (UK), Brighten The Corners Festival
AUGUST
7 Kaltern (DE), Kaltern Pop Festival
SEPTEMBER
12 Sart-Messire-Guillaume (BE), SMG Festival
13 Leffinge (BE), Leffingeleuren Festival
supporting Fat Dog
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Photo credit: Freddie Willatt
