At Home In My Mind (Dinked Edition #380)

Ellur is one of those unique artists who combines an undeniable authenticity with a forceful ambition and a voice that reaches beyond her years.

From Halifax, Ellur (named after the Yorkshire pronunciation of her name Ella) writes songs about feeling, battling with, and ultimately drawing comfort from vulnerability in a way that takes influence equally from classic alternative rock as it does the new school of songwriters of today. ‘At Home In My Mind’, her debut album, is an open invite into the world and is a brutally honest reflection on life in your emerging 20s - an arm extended out, looking for people who need a hand to hold. 

“Recording this album felt like the crescendo of years of struggling to understand myself. It can get quite claustrophobic living inside my head.” The album is a journey around Ellur’s mind, it dips into different musical genres that have shaped her for the past 24 years – from the 90s indie rock she grew up with, to glitch-pop she discovered in her late teens to the alt-folk she cherishes now. Ellur has created a warm abode for her thoughts and experiences as a young woman growing up in Yorkshire’s Calderdale Valley and ‘At Home In My Mind’ beds them all in, safely together.

Side A

God Help Me Now

Missing Kid

The Wheel

Dream of Mine

Yellow Light

Black Sands

Side B

Pushing Away

The World Is Not An Oyster

Disintegrate

Lonelier in Heaven

At Home In My Mind

Knowing