ILLLS

The project of Steven Ross, ILLLS' murky psych-pop reflects the distance he felt from Southern rock during his Mississippi childhood. After pursuing a music degree at Nashville's Belmont music program in 2008 and finding it not to his liking, he returned to his home state to continue his studies at Ole Miss in early 2009. His return coincided with the rise of a group of like-minded artists in Oxford, Mississippi: the Cats Purring collective, which included Dent May, Bass Drum of Death's John Barrett, Dead Gaze's Cole Furlow, and Flight's Steven Bevilaqua among its founding mem...