Tag: JJJJJerome Ellis

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

The Clearing the debut album by JJJJJerome Ellis is one of the records I have thought about most over the past few years, for its standout musical qualities, for the strength of the voice it introduced and for what those things together entailed, honing in on a particular facet of music while crystallising its force as a communicative tool. From...

It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...