London, UK · electronic · songwriter

James Ellis Ford

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Simian Mobile Disco's half and producer to Arctic Monkeys — solo pastoral electronics, a studio polymath finally under his own name.

James Ellis Ford is a British musician and producer, known first as one half of Simian Mobile Disco with Jas Shaw and before that as a member of Simian. Over the following two decades he became one of the more in-demand producers in British music, working repeatedly with Arctic Monkeys and on records by Depeche Mode, Gorillaz, Florence + the Machine and others.

He released his first solo album, The Hum, in 2023. It draws on analogue synthesis and live instrumentation in roughly equal measure, with Ford singing and playing most of the parts himself, and sits closer to pastoral, song-based electronic music than to the club work of his earlier career.

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