Ellis Swan: Buffalo Mask 5 tracks, 15.04 Ellis Swan on November 06, 2012 17:35
- 1. Black Perfumes 3.17 1388 plays
- 2. When The Lilacs Bloom 2.35 529 plays
- 3. Buffalo Mask 2.44 564 plays
- 4. Ghost Dance 3.01 531 plays
- 5. Blind Boy 3.24 465 plays
Ellis Swan: Some More Songs 8 tracks, 26.54 Ellis Swan on January 27, 2011 03:31
- 1. Don't Wanna Lie 2.52 5102 plays
- 2. It's A Dream 3.41 728 plays
- 3. Evan Williams 4.16 1176 plays
- 4. Baptists and Bootleggers 2.45 1635 plays
- 5. Frankie and Charlie 3.57 1655 plays
- 6. Tell No One 3.31 1814 plays
- 7. Eastside 2.39 1612 plays
- 8. Warren 3.10 987 plays
About
"...Ellis Swan is back with a new EP featuring five doomed songs of desolate neo-noir folk, Buffalo Mask. Standout track "Black Perfumes" is as subtly fuzzed out as ever..."
- No Fear of Pop
12/6/12
"Swan’s songs have patient movement: bass lines that crawl around in circles and fractured washes of texture. His weary, almost exhausted-sounding voice scrapes out a listener’s soul."
- chicagomag.com
1/15/13
"Swan is a Canadian artist living in Chicago, and gained some attention last year with his warped, nightmarish ballad Frankie and Charlie. In the bleary-eyed track ‘Evan Williams’, the twisted folk artist takes a more naturalistic route, but keeps that looming, leering edge to his music that makes it so striking."
- dummymag.com
01/29/12
"He has this twisted and dark sound that transports you to a cloud of fuzz and black and white images. Many of his tracks remind me a little of David Lynch..."
- hazyacres.com
04/01/12
"At its core true-to-the-letter loner folk yet fuzzed out to the extreme and with quite a few twisted edges..."
- No Fear Of Pop
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Ellis was some moons ago, Soundclouder Of The Day. And if interested, see Dead Bandit.
