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Album Review: Ernest Ellis - Cold Desire

Cam Findlay

It gets slightly cacophonous at points, but Ellis and co have been careful to allow enough space for the tracks to develop, building a dark and brooding atmosphere.



Ernest Ellis is one of those enigmatic figures we cherish in music. He's pretty fearless when it comes to his own musical ideal, and Cold Desire is once again proof of that. Following the one-two punch of 2010's Hunting and 2011's King's Canyon, Cold Desire is stark, bold and intensely personal. Behind that, there's a deep, textural resonance to the album: airy synths battle for space with scratchy acoustic strums. It gets slightly cacophonous at points, but Ellis and co have been careful to allow enough space for the tracks to develop, building a dark and brooding atmosphere.