Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, has announced his second solo album as One True Pairing.
‘Endless Rain’ is set for release on 25th October via Domino, and was recorded in Dublin in 2022 with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy at Hellfire studios.
Fleming reflects on the album’s origins: “It was off the back of a lot of personal difficulties, a loss of income, a loss of house, everything. It rained solidly for about a week.” He describes watching, “The brown, mucky water rising and the creatures that live in it.”
He continues: “I didn’t write anything for ages and then it all happened at once. That hasn’t happened before. ‘Frozen Food Centre’ has possibly been in my head for about seven years and I couldn’t find a way to get it out. But ‘Be Strong’, ‘Tunnelling’, they were fifteen minute jobs.”
The announcement comes alongside new single ‘A Landlord’s Death’. Of the track, Fleming states: “Parasites the fucking lot. No tears shed for the guilty. We’re coming.”
Of the video, he adds: “We see our hero at a table full of his heart’s desires. He gobbles it down greedily, never stopping to think why he is there nor where his greed might lead him. He just can’t help himself can he?”
The album’s tracklisting is as follows:
1. As Fast As I Can Go
2. Endless Rain
3. Tunnelling
4. Human Frailty
5. Prince of Darkness
6. Doubt
7. I Don’t Want To Do This Anymore
8. Mid-Life Crisis
9. A Landlord’s Death
10. Ruthless Streak
11. Frozen Food Centre
12. Be Strong
13. The World Said No
One True Pairing will play London’s Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre on 16th November as part of the London Jazz Festival.
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