Biography
In 2019, Tom Fleming released his debut album as One True Pairing - his first since the split of Wild Beasts and an album described by The Quietus as “excellent” and praised by Clash for its “surprisingly confrontational” meditation on class frustration and self-despair.
Recorded with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum,
black midi, caroline), new single “Frozen Food Centre” is a poignant small-town
vignette about childhood, where home is a place to escape and there are ghosts
in the aisles of supermarkets. It is perhaps one of the most honest and
searching songs of his career.
Fleming’s output has always looked at ideas around masculinity - the sad and
sexy music of Wild Beasts subverting accepted roles around young Northern men.
Now older and wiser, his new music continues this theme from a place of
newfound experience.
Latest Release
One True Pairing Endless Rain
Album | 25th October 2024
Endless Rain is the startlingly intimate and gorgeously realised new album from One True Pairing. Recorded in Dublin with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, black midi, Caroline), Endless Rain boldly restates Fleming’s vision with an autumnal, searching and often uplifting record shaped by the backgrounds in traditional music, classical and noise rock of its players, which include Cormac mac Diarmada of Lankum. Sonically, Endless Rain is an ambitious and widescreen record quite unlike anything in Fleming’s back catalogue.
Latest Release
One True Pairing Endless Rain
Album | 25th October 2024
Album Description
Endless Rain is the startlingly intimate and gorgeously realised new album from One True Pairing. Recorded in Dublin with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, black midi, Caroline), Endless Rain boldly restates Fleming’s vision with an autumnal, searching and often uplifting record shaped by the backgrounds in traditional music, classical and noise rock of its players, which include Cormac mac Diarmada of Lankum. Sonically, Endless Rain is an ambitious and widescreen record quite unlike anything in Fleming’s back catalogue.
