The Ellipsist

The Ellipsist makes music for the spaces that language leaves behind. The debut 4-song EP “All Night Wishing I Was Here” explores the tension between clarity and disappearance—how something can seem to exist completely, yet remain abstract. The name itself reflects this paradox. “Ellipsist” looks and sounds like a word that should exist. That slight dissonance mirrors the project’s balance between legibility and omission, the things left unsaid.

Drawing from ambient, post-dream-pop, and modern R&B, The Ellipsist builds wide, reverberant soundscapes where melody and rhythm dissolve into and out of atmosphere. Vocals arrive as though coming through the walls— phrases half-heard, dissolving before they can be understood. . With a constrained palate and a lo-fi sensibility, each track holds a kind of insistent melancholy: emotional restraint paired with a reverence for space and what lies just beyond comprehension.

The Ellipsist’s debut EP evokes urban nightscapes at remove—refracted through distance and time. It is music for listening in the pause, for tracing the after-image of feeling, as the details fall away.

In Other Projects

The Ellipsist is Stephen Krieger, a neurologist in NYC—and, with Erik Laroi, one-half of The Formalist, a New York-based duo described as “elegant, experimental electronic pop sprinkled with a dash of shoegaze ambience.” Their releases through Mother West meld their precise productions with human vulnerability, offering a lineage of thought and texture that continues in Krieger’s more abstract new solo work as The Ellipsist, which Krieger sequenced, mixed, and mastered entirely on an MPC sampler.