'When the geography of the world of "After Us" shifts around you, the music is right there with you on your journey. It bubbles and swells as you plunge to the depths of the ocean; it soars when you climb to the top of the highest tower. Blending sci-fi synthesis with music concreté, evoking place and time, and always with sincerity.'

'Up to this point, my work had been about the interpretation of a subject, a literary work, or the coming to terms with a music influence,' Elms says.

'Whereas this was something that was much more visceral, that came out of a series of emotions that I experienced at that age, and that have continued to influence me to this day'.

'Consolations in Travel' cements Elms’ standing as a distinctive and original voice in contemporary music, and extends his vision of a 21st-century orchestral music coloured, mediated, and expanded by technology.

The album 'Islandia' is compiled of five works for chamber orchestra, electric guitar, synthesisers and found sounds. Each of the five works ruminate upon the post-industrial coastal towns and people of North East England. The album was first sketched at the former home of Imogen Holst in Autumn 2015 and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in June 2017.