ELLIS Shares New Song "March 13" via The FADER!

ELLIS SHARES NEW SONG “MARCH 13” LISTEN NOW VIA THE FADER Born Again out April 3rd via Fat Possum

(Credit: Stephanie Montani) Early praise for Ellis:    “Under the name Ellis, Ontario-based songwriter Linnea Siggelkow records warm and brooding bedroom pop. The new single, "Something Blue" is an atmospheric and wandering slow-core ballad you can get lost in.” - NPR Music’s All Songs Considered   “‘The Drain’ is the sort of song you could imagine being just as captivating when blown up with an orchestra or stripped down to acoustic guitar—the rare track that manages to feel both triumphant and achingly intimate.” - Pitchfork   “hazy dream-pop” - The New York Times   “[The Fuzz is] a breathtakingly beautiful collection of alternative rock-inflected shoegaze songs that offer a window into some of her most intimate moments...A minor shift can be heard in the guitars and synths [on ‘Something Blue’], which contain glimpses of Berlin-era Bowie and Brooklyn indie. Her voice too, is less fragile, with more open space to sound off between the reverb and distortion. Some of the catharsis that defined The Fuzz has also been stripped away, allowing droplets of dream-pop to enter the mix.” - i-D   “[One of] a new generation of guitar-centric bands who quickly proved themselves to be exciting songwriters...a swooning, hazy piece of music, capturing the lure of those early relationship stages.” - Stereogum   "With a sound that combines the best parts of Hatchie and Slowdive, Ellis is certainly an artist to watch in 2020." - Uproxx   “[‘Fall Apart’ is a ]dreamy, poignant meditation on her own experience with anxiety" - Gorilla vs. Bear   Ellis - Hamilton, Ontario’s Linnea Siggelkow - will release her triumphant debut album Born Again on April 3rd, and today she shares a new song off of the record ahead of its release. Following the previously released singles “Fall Apart” and "Embarrassing,” “March 13” is a short but stunning interlude on the record and is out now via The FADER. "March 13’ plays right after the last single ‘Embarrassing’ on the track listing, and is a reflection on a night that I did embarrass myself,” explains Linnea. “I acted badly and put someone I cared about in an unnecessary and uncomfortable situation, but refused to admit at the time that I was out of line.” Linnea performed the song on socials last week HERE, and you can listen to it now HERE via The FADER.   Ellis’ upcoming headline and support dates with Ratboys have, unfortunately, been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Stay tuned for updated tour dates coming soon.    Produced by Jake Aron (Snail Mail, Solange, Grizzly Bear) and recorded partly at Aron’s Brooklyn studio, Born Again arrives as the follow-up to Ellis’s debut EP The Fuzz—a self-released, self-produced effort that promptly led to a deal with Fat Possum Records. In a departure from the viscerally charged dream-pop of The Fuzz, Born Again unfolds with a mesmerizing subtlety, gracefully spotlighting Ellis’s unhurried melodies, starkly confessional lyrics, and luminous vocal work. Not only does this record and its production showcase Ellis’ incredible growth as a songwriter, but it also explores more complex and honest themes than her earlier work. “I grew up Christian and was quite devoted to faith up through my late teens, but I started challenging that once I got to university,” says Siggelkow, the daughter of a traveling book salesman and a piano teacher. “Since then I’ve been trying to redefine who I am and where I stand and what I think about these things on my own, and that journey very much played into the songwriting on this record.” Pre-order Born Again now, out April 3rd on Fat Possum Records, HERE.

Tracklisting 1. Pringle Creek 2. Born Again 3. Shame 4. Embarrassing  5. March 13 6. Fall Apart 7. Happy 8. Into the Trees 9. Saturn Return 10. Zhuangzi’s Dream The full-length debut from Ellis, Born Again takes place in spaces both intimate and vast, ordinary and near-mythic: warm beds and lonely church pews, restless cities and desolate forests and the furthest reaches of the cosmos. Throughout the album, those spaces serve as the backdrop to Ellis’s sharply detailed and sometimes-painful experience of self-discovery, as well as the life-changing transformation echoed in the album’s title.   Embedded with Ellis’s untethered guitar work and elegant piano melodies, Born Again showcases the sophisticated musicality she’s honed since taking up piano at age four (partly due to the influence of her mother, a piano teacher). The summer she was 12, Siggelkow saved up her babysitting money and bought her first guitar, then began writing her own songs a few years later. “Because of my anxiety, the idea of performing was always intimidating, so the songs stayed in my bedroom for a long time,” she notes. Upon moving to Toronto in her early 20s, Siggelkow started playing in local bands, later making her name as a solo performer in the city’s DIY scene, until she eventually adopted the moniker of Ellis (a play on her initials).  For Ellis, the making of her debut album proved to be incredibly demanding. "When the record was finished, I didn’t feel how I had anticipated I would. I thought I was going to be feeling excited and fulfilled and proud of myself, but truthfully, I felt very depleted and drained and emptied out.  The more I thought about why that was, the more I realized that I really did give this record all of myself, every last bit."  But through that process, she slowly made her way to an unforeseen clarity—an effect she hopes might ultimately transfer onto Born Again’s listeners. “I feel like I’ve found some sort of closure, and a better understanding of all the ways I’ve grown and the things I still have to work on,” says Siggelkow. “I rarely sit down with any specific intention when I’m working on music, but if these songs help people to find some comfort or feel less alone in what they’re going through, then that’s really the greatest takeaway I could ever hope for.”