Hussy

Having grown up in rural Northumberland before studying at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Sophie now works as a professional sound engineer and calls south London home. A skilled multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer, she wrote, played and produced every element of the forthcoming EP, making her entirely self-sufficient in her work as Hussy.

Though Ellison has been writing music her whole life, she began working publicly under the pseudonym Hussy in 2018. Sourcing the name from a t-shirt given to her she was drawn to the assertive and playful nature of the supposed misogynistic slur. She self-released ‘Slayer / Playtime’ a year later, a double A-side single dealing in lo-fi indie-pop, complete with dreamy vocal harmonies and layers of reverb-drenched guitars. It was followed with the lucid dreaming-inspired ‘Forever’, and in 2019 by the driving, grunge-inspired ‘Ylmd’, solidifying Ellison’s style which she describes as “DIY with high ambitions.”