We're nerds who make music. Officially, there's just the two of us. Alex is the tall one and Will is the not so tall one, but we're often helped by our helpful friends. They're pretty helpful.
You'll find our blog below and our music to the right! Enjoy :)
Posted in We're Just Unpopular on November 7, 2011
Breaking news! Ellipsis are not as indie as once thought!
In order to celebrate this, our new EP, We’re Not Indie, We’re Just Unpopular is out now!
We actually recorded it back in August, but wanted to get the album out first, so here it is! It’s based on a load of experimental poetry we wrote with some friends in Italy and then turned into music when we got back. We hope you enjoy it 
Posted in Too Long; Didn't Listen on September 7, 2011
So, rather foolishly, we decided to release the album the day before we went off on a journey of self-discovery (we found out that if you buy too much food, you end up eating it all) and therefore had no time to say on our OWN WEBSITE that “LOOK, WE FINALLY FINISHED OUR ALBUM PLEASE FEEL FREE TO HAVE A LISTEN!”
So, uh, look. After about a year since its conception, we’ve finally finished and released Too Long; Didn’t Listen, and you can listen to it, download it and even BUY it here
So far we’ve also uploaded two (rather good, if I say so myself) videos to accompany the tracks, with a vision to have one video a week, for every track on the album, which may sound ambitious…and probably is. Ahwell.
So the video for “Too Many Windows” can be found here, and the video for “Me at the Zoo” can be found here.
We really hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we’ve enjoyed making it.
The work doesn’t stop here, however. The work never stops. Not only does “We’re Not Indie, Just Unpopular” have to be released at some point, but work on our experimental album “What Is This I Don’t Even?” is progressing fast, and we’re sorting out when we can record our next EP/rock opera, “$ (dolor sine)”.
Whatever happens, it’ll be fun. And Ellipsis? We love fun.
Posted in Too Long; Didn't Listen on August 18, 2011
Work is ever so nearly done on our debut album, Too Long; Didn’t Listen! We’ve been really close to finishing for months now, but I keep on insisting whole songs are re-recorded and… y’know, that takes a little while.
We are having one final crack at getting the damn thing finished in just over a week. Expect videos and music and general niceties to follow.
Posted in We're Just Unpopular on July 22, 2011
Yesterday Will and I got together with a number of friends and made some post-modern poetry we’d made into a short EP: We’re Not Indie, We’re Just Unpopular.
There are ten tracks in total, but the EP’s only fifteen minutes long. Some of the tracks are a bit weird and off-the-wall, others are really beautiful and others are good ol’ uke pop, Ellipsis style.
We want to release Too Long; Didn’t Listen first, so We’re Not Indie, We’re Just Unpopular will be out in early September.
Posted in Too Long; Didn't Listen on June 16, 2011
It seems like the last few days’ recording sessions’ motto has been, ”Why do either when you could do both? Tracks are free!”. According to my music-techy girlfriend, the average pop song has 10 - 15 tracks. For the closing track of Too Long; Didn’t Listen, we’ve got over a hundred, and we’re not finished yet.
Can’t hire an orchestra? Can’t hire a thousand-strong choir? Handy hint: multi-track until you get one. Fed up with cheap-sounding keyboard imitations of cellos or saxophones? Bring in people who can actually play those instruments and (this is a fact) you improve your sound quality by three hundred and twenty-six percent.
Posted in Too Long; Didn't Listen on June 14, 2011
Second recording session for Too Long; Didn’t Listen today, woot. Not only did we manage to record an whole extra song that didn’t even exist before today (and highly surreal it was too) but also expanded the reprise of We Don’t Go on Bebo (We Don’t Go on Facebook) so it became more politically-minded and generally awesome.
And we made a video which is, I guess, in some way related, but probably won’t be appearing on the album as it’s, uh, not our song. Ahwell.
This’ll be done by August. Fo’ sho’.
Posted in Thoughts By Will on June 8, 2011
Well that’s odd. For no apparent reason, our youtube views and subscribers have suddenly skyrocketed. Sure, I’m highly suspicious as to why, and not all the feedback has been, shall we say, positive, yet it’s nice knowing more people are hearing the Ellipsis sound, even if that’s not what we’re about (in theory)…
Posted in Thoughts by Alex on June 4, 2011
We’ve started recording our first full album, Too Long Didn’t Listen, and have more-or-less finished two songs: Me At The Zoo and Too Many Windows.
Me At The Zoo was the first ever video on YouTube and this is combined with a poem by A.A. Milne (of Winnie The Pooh fame) and a load of animal noises to make uke-pop like you’ve never heard it.
Too Many Windows was written by Will about seven months ago, but I never liked it. The chords were too clunky and changed too often. I just didn’t like it, much to Will’s annoyance. The other week, however, I wrote some chords to it. And then we recorded it and layered and layered harmony parts until it sounded like Queen. And then I mixed it and made it sound better. And then we actually made something that sounds good!
This is turning into one of those Reconciliation moments.
Too Long Didn’t Listen will be out soon. It’ll have anything between four and a zillion tracks and shall be awesome.
Posted in Too Long; Didn't Listen on June 2, 2011
Having taken note of the huge success of the variety of the instrumentation in The Zombies EP, Ellipsis have been taking percussion to all new, Cage-esque levels in the recording of our upcoming album, TL; DL.
Essentially, we’ve discovered that a bed and some claves can make a good substitute for a drum kit if one can’t be bothered to go downstairs and record the latter.
And no. However you’ve pictured it in your head, it’s not like that. At all.
Posted in The Zombies EP on June 1, 2011
The Zombies EP is out now! The music has been finished for weeks now, but mastering and whatnot have all taken their time but now you can get the EP!
It’s available on our Bandcamp. If you enter “0″ as your price, you can have it for free, but if you’d like to give us some money that’d be nice.
Of course, if you’ve got any thoughts, we’d very much like to hear them.
