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Lost In Another World
James Ellis Ford
Released Aug 14, 2026
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Mojo@mojo · 3w
80/100

Creatively sure-footed while emotionally delicate, it's a powerful document of human vulnerability. Print edition only

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Uncut@uncut · 3w
80/100

"Silver Lining" offers calm positivity, and "The Ever After" even guides us cautiously towards the dancefloor, before he touchingly concedes to sentimentality on closing ballad "This Will All Be A Memory Soon". Print edition only

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Record Collector@recordcollector · 3w
80/100

The vocals are close and intimate, the music surprisingly fleshed out and poppy. The album captures the ennui of chronic illness, and while it stares into the void, it still elicits hope

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musicOMH@musicomh · 3w
90/100

A powerful ray of hope for anyone travelling through darkness, the producer's second solo work is above all a memorandum on the power of music

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Far Out@farout · 4w
80/100

Tender, vulnerable and brutally honest

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Clash@clash · 4w
80/100

Whether made in a hospital bed, a million-dollar studio or an abandoned warehouse, ‘Lost In Another World’ is raw, rare and radiant — regardless of the world one is lost in

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All Music@allmusic · 4w
80/100

It never resorts to heavy-handedness in conveying just how serious the days that it was made felt to Ford, and somehow transforms a life-shaking brush with a potentially fatal illness into something uplifting. At times, Ford even miraculously pulls joy and understanding from the horrors that inspired these songs

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The Quietus@thequietus · 4w
80/100

Lost In Another World, then, is an impressively put together DIY electronic album that takes us under the covers of the hospital bed, lying around endlessly with just your thoughts to entertain you, punctuated by sundry temperature readings, injections that you barely notice, as well as the semidiurnal arrival of trays of inedible food

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Pitchfork@pitchfork · via RSS · 4w
80/100

The producer known for his work with Arctic Monkeys, Geese, and more recorded his second solo album while undergoing chemotherapy. It is surreal, tender, and achingly poignant.

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James Ellis Ford is an English record producer and songwriter, known for being a member of Simian Mobile Disco and the Last Shadow Puppets as well as his production work with Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Depeche Mode, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Haim, Gorillaz, Klaxons, The Last Dinner Party, Jessie Ware, Kylie Minogue, Declan McKenna, the Pet Shop Boys, Pulp and Geese. via Wikipedia