WORKS
- debut album // Sep 25, 2026
- listening party // Sep 24, 2026
- neighbo(u)r // Jul 29, 2026
- data center noise // May 14, 2026
- the rumo(u)r // May 12, 2026
- error // Feb 20, 2026
ABOUT
GULFF is a multidisciplinary collaboration by Owain Kelly and Tod Lippy.
Lippy is an artist, editor, and the founding editor of the arts publication Esopus in Brooklyn. Kelly (NO CEREMONY///) is an electronic musician and composer in Manchester.
The project's first offering is a self-titled album exploring the cultural, political, commercial, and technological ruptures of the mid–2020s. This exploration is communicated through the auditory byproducts of late capitalism — collected through a process they term 'digital field recording'. Sometimes eerie, sometimes uplifting, and always world-building textural layers of sampled robocalls, rolling newscasts, studio audience soundscapes, electric static, manosphere podcasters permeate the album's 10 tracks. Phrases culled from these sources inform the lyrics, which follow a narrator experiencing personal loss and isolation while reckoning with a splintered present and expectations for a dystopic future.
For Kelly and Lippy, latency, static, and digital distance are personal: These two collaborators, who live six time zones and nearly 3,500 miles apart, have never met in person and say they never will.
The distance between them — and the intrusive and sometimes terrifying marvels of digital connectivity they use to navigate it — are central to their collaborative process and to the final product.
WHO.IS Owain Kelly?
Owain Kelly is a Welsh electronic musician and composer based in Manchester. As one half of NO CEREMONY///, he toured with Foals, Pixies, and Crystal Fighters, landed Zane Lowe's "Hottest Record" on Radio 1, hit #1 worldwide on Hype Machine, and picked up remixes for alt-J, The 1975, John Grant, and Patrick Wolf. Diplo put "HURTLOVE" on his Best of 2011 mixtape. Joey Santiago played guitar on "HEARTBREAKER." They got a Maida Vale session before they'd barely played live and LA Times named them "Best Newcomer" at SXSW 2013.
Since NO CEREMONY///, Kelly has become an awards-nominated composer, scored film and television — including ¿Eres Tú, Papá?, an award-winning Cuban psychological horror feature — and composed for theatre, most recently developing a new stage piece with actor Simon Manyonda called BLESSED, TRYNA SHAKE THIS CURSE that draws on garage, jungle, and early-2000s pop. His latest release, Symphony For Her Website, is a collaboration with songwriter James Williams and director Stacy Cochran — a four-part EP loosely modeled on the classical symphony form. He lives in Manchester.
WHO.IS Tod Lippy?
Tod Lippy is a multi-disciplinary artist, editor, and writer in Brooklyn. Lippy has put out four solo albums produced by the likes of Kramer (Galaxie 500, Low) and Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Antony and the Johnsons). But music is the latest in a long line of things he's done. He's curated shows at White Columns and Pioneer Works, published Modern Artifacts with MoMA (year-end lists at the Times, the LA Times, New York), and in 2025 showed his series My Fellow Americans — 50 painted portraits of Trump voters — at Independent Art Fair.
Until 2023, he ran Esopus, a nonprofit arts magazine he created, edited, designed, and published for 20 years, featuring contributors like Edward Ruscha, Jenny Holzer, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Anish Kapoor, Mickalene Thomas, Fred Tomaselli, Tina Barney, and Hayden Dunham. Every issue shipped with a commissioned CD — contributors included Grizzly Bear, Jens Lekman, Sharon Van Etten, Neko Case, Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), and many others. New York Times art critic David Carr called it "a thing of lavish, eccentric beauty.” Artist Kerry James Marshall, one of Time’s “100 most influential people in the world,” declared it was "the best and most extravagant platform for artists' projects that I knew of." Before Esopus, Lippy was the founding editor of Scenario and publicsfear and a senior editor at Print. He studied art history at Williams College and cinema at NYU. He lives in Brooklyn.
Lippy is an artist, editor, and the founding editor of the arts publication Esopus in Brooklyn. Kelly (NO CEREMONY///) is an electronic musician and composer in Manchester.
The project's first offering is a self-titled album exploring the cultural, political, commercial, and technological ruptures of the mid–2020s. This exploration is communicated through the auditory byproducts of late capitalism — collected through a process they term 'digital field recording'. Sometimes eerie, sometimes uplifting, and always world-building textural layers of sampled robocalls, rolling newscasts, studio audience soundscapes, electric static, manosphere podcasters permeate the album's 10 tracks. Phrases culled from these sources inform the lyrics, which follow a narrator experiencing personal loss and isolation while reckoning with a splintered present and expectations for a dystopic future.
For Kelly and Lippy, latency, static, and digital distance are personal: These two collaborators, who live six time zones and nearly 3,500 miles apart, have never met in person and say they never will.
The distance between them — and the intrusive and sometimes terrifying marvels of digital connectivity they use to navigate it — are central to their collaborative process and to the final product.
WHO.IS Owain Kelly?
Owain Kelly is a Welsh electronic musician and composer based in Manchester. As one half of NO CEREMONY///, he toured with Foals, Pixies, and Crystal Fighters, landed Zane Lowe's "Hottest Record" on Radio 1, hit #1 worldwide on Hype Machine, and picked up remixes for alt-J, The 1975, John Grant, and Patrick Wolf. Diplo put "HURTLOVE" on his Best of 2011 mixtape. Joey Santiago played guitar on "HEARTBREAKER." They got a Maida Vale session before they'd barely played live and LA Times named them "Best Newcomer" at SXSW 2013.
Since NO CEREMONY///, Kelly has become an awards-nominated composer, scored film and television — including ¿Eres Tú, Papá?, an award-winning Cuban psychological horror feature — and composed for theatre, most recently developing a new stage piece with actor Simon Manyonda called BLESSED, TRYNA SHAKE THIS CURSE that draws on garage, jungle, and early-2000s pop. His latest release, Symphony For Her Website, is a collaboration with songwriter James Williams and director Stacy Cochran — a four-part EP loosely modeled on the classical symphony form. He lives in Manchester.
WHO.IS Tod Lippy?
Tod Lippy is a multi-disciplinary artist, editor, and writer in Brooklyn. Lippy has put out four solo albums produced by the likes of Kramer (Galaxie 500, Low) and Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Antony and the Johnsons). But music is the latest in a long line of things he's done. He's curated shows at White Columns and Pioneer Works, published Modern Artifacts with MoMA (year-end lists at the Times, the LA Times, New York), and in 2025 showed his series My Fellow Americans — 50 painted portraits of Trump voters — at Independent Art Fair.
Until 2023, he ran Esopus, a nonprofit arts magazine he created, edited, designed, and published for 20 years, featuring contributors like Edward Ruscha, Jenny Holzer, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Anish Kapoor, Mickalene Thomas, Fred Tomaselli, Tina Barney, and Hayden Dunham. Every issue shipped with a commissioned CD — contributors included Grizzly Bear, Jens Lekman, Sharon Van Etten, Neko Case, Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), and many others. New York Times art critic David Carr called it "a thing of lavish, eccentric beauty.” Artist Kerry James Marshall, one of Time’s “100 most influential people in the world,” declared it was "the best and most extravagant platform for artists' projects that I knew of." Before Esopus, Lippy was the founding editor of Scenario and publicsfear and a senior editor at Print. He studied art history at Williams College and cinema at NYU. He lives in Brooklyn.