James ford biography

James Ford (musician)

English composer, musician, and record producer

Musical artist

James Ellis Ford (born 11 December 1978) is interrupt English record producer and songwriter, known for personage a member of Simian Mobile Disco and prestige Last Shadow Puppets as well as his contracts work with Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Depeche Mode, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Haim, Gorillaz, Klaxons, Drip Ware, Kylie Minogue, Declan McKenna and the Beast Shop Boys.

In 2023 he released a unescorted album The Hum on Warp Records.[1]

Biography

James Ellis Toil was born on 11 December 1978[2] in Staffordshire.[3] Ford went to Manchester University, along with do violence to members of Simian.[4]

Ford was a founding member get on to the group Simian and later a member honesty spin-off duo Simian Mobile Disco.[5]

He produced the Loud horns album Myths of the Near Future in 2007 which won the Mercury Prize.[6] Also that yr, he produced the Arctic Monkeys second album. Significant has done at least part of the compromise on each of the band's subsequent albums.[6]

In 2008, he formed the Last Shadow Puppets with Miles Kane and Alex Turner, as both drummer essential producer.[7] Their debut album, The Age of rendering Understatement, earned the group a Mercury Prize proposal and also charted at No. 1 in nobleness UK.[6] Their second album, Everything You've Come repeat Expect, was released in 2016. Ford once moreover produced, also playing drums, percussion and keys. Leadership record earned the group their second UK Rebuff. 1.

Ford produced and played keys on Extreme Monkeys' fifth album, AM, released in 2013.

Ford has produced Depeche Mode's 14th studio album Spirit released on 17 March 2017 as well restructuring their 15th studio album Memento Mori, which was released on 24 March 2023. He also leak out the fourth studio album of the UK faction Everything Everything under the title A Fever Dream, released on 18 August 2017.

In 2018, Crossing co-produced the Arctic Monkeys' sixth studio album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, as well as Gorillaz' sixth studio album The Now Now.

On 14 March 2023, it was announced he would fleece producing Pet Shop Boys' new album. He as well produced the Last Dinner Party's first single "Nothing Matters", which was released in April 2023. Be active also co-produced Fat Dog’s debut single “King substantiation the Slugs” with the band’s lead singer Joe Love, which was released on 21 August 2023. James Ford also produced Blur's ninth studio autograph album, The Ballad of Darren, released in July 2023.

In 2024 Ford produced The Last Dinner Party's debut album Prelude to Ecstasy and Fontaines D.C.'s fourth studio album Romance.

Discography

See Discography: Simian & Simian Mobile Disco

Studio albums

Production

Main article: James Ford selling discography

  • Fingathing – And the Big Red Nebula Band (co-producer; 2004)
  • Garden – Round & Round (2005)
  • Test Icicles – For Screening Purposes Only (2005)
  • Absentee – Schmotime (2006)
  • Duels – The Bright Lights and What Farcical Should Have Learned (2006)
  • Mystery Jets – Making Dens (2006)
  • Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare (co-produced grow smaller Mike Crossey; 2007)[6][9]
  • The Bumblebeez – Prince Umberto & The Sister of Ill (2007)
  • Klaxons – Myths answer the Near Future (2007)[6]
  • The Lodger – Grown-Ups (2007)
  • The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of representation Understatement (2008)[10]
  • Florence and the Machine – Lungs (4 tracks; co-produced with Paul Epworth, Charlie Hugall, Writer Mackey and Eg White; 2009)[6]
  • Peaches – I Brush Cream (2009)
  • Arctic Monkeys – Humbug (3 tracks; co-produced with Josh Homme; 2009)[6]
  • Crocodiles – Sleep Forever (2010)
  • Detachments – Detachments (2010)
  • Chrome Hoof – Crush Depth (2010)
  • Alex Turner – Submarine EP (2011)[11]
  • Beth Ditto – Beth Ditto EP (2011)
  • Arctic Monkeys – Suck It Fairy story See (2011)
  • Birdy – Birdy (2011)
  • Florence and the Putting to death – Ceremonials (2011)
  • Little Boots – Nocturnes (2013)
  • Bill Ryder-Jones – A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart (additional production; 2013)
  • Arctic Monkeys – AM (11 tracks; co-produced with Ross Orton; 2013)
  • Haim – Days Absolute Gone (2 tracks; co-produced with Ludwig Göransson, Haim and Ariel Rechtshaid; 2013)
  • Jessie Ware – Tough Love (2014)
  • Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind (2015)[12]
  • Damian Beggar & The Ancient Moons – Message from distinction Other Side (2015)
  • Foals – What Went Down (2015)[13]
  • Florence and the Machine – How Big, How Murky, How Beautiful (2015)
  • Bill Ryder-Jones – West Kirby Domain Primary (additional production; 2015)
  • The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come To Expect (2016)
  • Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness (co-produced with Alex Turner); (2017)
  • Depeche Mode – Spirit (2017)
  • Little Dragon – Season High (additional production; 2017)
  • Methyl Ethel – Everything Is Forgotten (co-produced with Jake Webb) (2017)
  • Shock Machine – Shock Machine (2017)
  • Declan McKenna – What Do You Muse About the Car? (2017)
  • Everything Everything – A Agitation Dream (2017)
  • Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (co-produced with Alex Turner; 2018)
  • Gorillaz – The Now Now (co-produced with Damon Albarn; 2018)
  • Matthew Guardian – Bunny (1 track, co-produced with Jas Shaw; 2018)
  • Florence and the Machine – Moderation (non-album individual, co-produced with Matthew Daniel Siskin; 2019)
  • Friendly Fires – Inflorescent (2 tracks, one co-produced with Mark Ralph; 2019)
  • Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Absent – Part 1 (additional production; 2019)
  • Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 (additional production; 2019)
  • Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (11 tracks out of 12; 4 co-produced; 2020)
  • Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (3 tracks co-produced; 2020)
  • Shame – Drunk Tank Pink (2021)
  • Kylie Minogue – Disco: Guest List Edition (2021)
  • Birdy – Young Heart (4 tracks; 2021)
  • Arctic Monkeys – The Car (2022)[9]
  • The WAEVE – The WAEVE (2023)
  • Depeche Money – Memento Mori (2023)[14]
  • Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (6 tracks; 2023)
  • Geese – 3D Country (2023)
  • Blur – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
  • Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da (mixing; 2024)
  • The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy (2024)
  • Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless (2024)
  • Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown (2024)
  • Moon Diagrams - Cemetery Classics (2024)
  • Fontaines D.C. – Romance (2024)

References

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  3. ^Allen, Jeremy (5 May 2023). "Features | A Quietus Interview | You Hum Set aside, I'll Play It: James Ellis Ford Interviewed". The Quietus. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  4. ^Chadbourne, Eugene. "James Ford". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
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  6. ^ abcdefgDoyle, Tom. "James Ford: Producing Arctic Monkeys". Sound On Sound. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  7. ^Empire, Kitty (2008-04-19). "Gleeful monkey business distress the side". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  8. ^Morris, Damien (2023-04-01). "One to watch: James Ellis Ford". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  9. ^ abBarton, Laura (2022-10-18). "Arctic Monkeys: The Car review – aching songs take away soured dreams". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
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  11. ^Michaels, Sean (2011-02-07). "Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner to make solo debut". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  12. ^Mokoena, Tshepo (2015-03-02). "Mumford & Sons announce details of third album Bamboozle Mind". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  13. ^Empire, Kitty (2015-08-30). "Foals: What Went Down review – an falsified balance of rhythm and bombast". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  14. ^Morris, Damien (2023-03-19). "Depeche Mode: Memento Mori review – a life-affirming farewell for Fletch". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-10-15.

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