James Ellis Ford - Lost In Another World

• Available August 28th, 2026

Lost In Another World is James Ellis Ford’s excellent, emotionally resonant second solo album. It was made from start to finish in just over two weeks in early 2025, while James was on a hospital ward between punishing rounds of chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer of the white blood cells.

The producer known for his work with Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Depeche Mode and Geese did the only thing that felt natural to him; he wrote, played, sang, recorded and mixed a solo album about the experience. It is surreal, tender, and achingly poignant.

“There was no filter. I just sang the first thing that came into my head into the laptop.” It became a form of diary keeping; a way to process what was going on and also a way to cheer himself up, which would account for why some of the album is so surprisingly upbeat and poppy: “It was a pep talk; I was telling myself I was going to be OK. It was one way of dealing with the existential dread I felt. It gave me the ammunition to fight the experience and was a distraction from it.”

Lost In Another World shares the experiences from the frontline of illness; fear, love, reassurance, boredom, pain, calm, disbelief, and ultimately hope. These transmissions from the eye of the storm have informed an album which is truly something special.

This vinyl edition produced by Domino Recording Co. in 2026.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Overtones
2. People Just Don't Know
3. 'Till Our Days Are Gone
4. Here Today
5. Parallel Dimension
6. Silver Lining
7. I Believe in You
8. This Too Shall Pass
9. Homesick for Another World
10. The Ever After
11. Did You Ever Want to Go to Your Own Funeral?
12. This Will All Be a Memory Soon