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(22 April) Today MF Tomlinson unveils new single 'Blink And You'll Miss It' - a lush, expansive second taste of new album 'Die To Wake Up From A Dream', out 11th July on PRAH Recordings. MF Tomlinson will launch the new album with in-stores at Rough Trade East, Rough Trade Bristol, Drift Records in Totnes and David's Music in Letchworth.
Written in collaboration with Is Tropical's Gary Barber, new single 'Blink And You'll Miss It' opens the album with a blend of shimmering beauty and melancholic depth. Softly plucked guitars, feathery flute runs, and warming saxophone interweave with luminous harmonies, as Tomlinson explores the challenge of staying present: 'I try to keep all the pieces from drifting away / Here in the darkness.'
With nods to the sonic mastery of Galaxie 500, My Bloody Valentine, Astral Weeks and Bon Iver all in the same breath, Tomlinson thinks of the song as “the sound of all of your life happening at once.”
Speaking more on the song, Tomlinson shared:
"The song is about aging, at any age. As the album's opener, it flows seamlessly from We Are Still Wild Horses down to the beat. It’s a moment — a view from a great height — when the full weight of the distance between the person you used to be and the person you are now hits you like a freight train. It fills you up and empties you out all at once. Everything that has happened brought you here. You can never go back, but then again, you don’t need to. All of those moments are still happening endlessly inside you. You’re holding them all like a vessel."
'Die To Wake Up From A Dream' is MF Tomlinson's third studio album, following the critically acclaimed 2021 debut 'Strange Time' and 2023's 'We Are Still Wild Horses', which drew universal praise from Uncut, Mojo, The Times, The Line of Best Fit, and many more.
An opus on human experience, new album 'Die To Wake Up From A Dream' is an urgent and vivid description of the times in which we live, fusing organic and electronic textures into a sonic tapestry that explores internal, external, and digital realms.
Encompassing folk, shoegaze, art-rock, prog and orchestral traditions, the new album was produced by Tomlinson in his studio in Poplar, London. Meticulously captured one instrument at a time, 'Die To Wake Up From A Dream' is a psychoacoustic odyssey of impossible proportions.
>From the grandeur of opener and new single 'Blink And You'll Miss It'; the liminal landscapes of instrumental tracks 'A Dream' and 'A Meadow (Part I)’ featuring Shovel Dance Collective’s Jacken Elswyth, and the stormy, tumultuous 'Your Flight (Dying/Another Dream)' featuring vocals by Dry Cleaning's Florence Shaw, to the solemn beauty of 'I'm On The Border' - a poetic exploration of immigration and global unrest - the universe Tomlinson has created is hyper-real; the falling of a pin detectable in the midst of a raging storm at sea.
Last month MF Tomlinson toured the UK with Welsh psych-rockers Melin Melyn, and shared the new album's ambitious centrepiece and 9-minute title track, ‘Die To Wake Up From A Dream’. Receiving early plaudits from The Needle Drop, Rolling Stone and The Line of Best Fit, the song’s jubilant final refrain 'it just gets better and better' was recorded during a live set at London’s Cafe Oto in September 2024. Anchored with a dose of dark humour, Tomlinson notes "It is a dark joke, but at least now we’re all in on it."
MF Tomlinson's new album 'Die To Wake Up From A Dream' is out 11th July on PRAH Recordings. New single 'Blink And You'll Miss It' is out now. MF Tomlinson celebrates the release of his new album with in-store performances in Totnes, Letchworth, London and Bristol in July. 'Die To Wake Up From A Dream' is available to pre-order on vinyl here.
ABOUT MF TOMLINSON
London-based, Brisbane/Meanjin-born singer-songwriter MF Tomlinson made his debut with the release of his 'Last Days Of Rome' EP in 2020 and has since released two critically acclaimed full length albums, 2021's 'Strange Time' and its follow up and sister album 'We Are Still Wild Horses' in 2023 via PRAH Recordings.
Merging together ambient, experimental jazz, acid-folk and indie folk to otherworldly new territory, 'We Are Still Wild Horses' received universal widespread acclaim upon its release from The Times, Mojo, Uncut, The Line Of Best Fit, Record Collector, Music OMH, The Arts Desk, Beats Per Minute, Gigwise, amongst many others.
Tomlinson's work has seen him traverse the globe, performing at festivals from Finland to Australia, and at the widely adored End of the Road Festival, not to mention support UK/EU tours with American heavyweights Geese and TORRES, alongside coveted support dates with Dry Cleaning, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, DeVotchKa, James Yorkston and Nina Persson - to name but a few.
PRAISE FOR MF TOMLINSON + WE ARE STILL WILD HORSES
"Offering variations on chamber rock with a solemn grandeur that simmers with tension"
Mojo (4/5)
"A literate, sensitive crooner of lugubrious yet meticulously arranged songs"
Uncut (8/10)
"An album you feel more in your gut than anywhere else...an opus on emotion"
Gigwise (9/10)
“We Are Still Wild Horses reveals Tomlinson as a rare thing today, a talented, depressive singer-songwriter with a sense of humour”
The Times (4/5)
"Amid wave upon wave of beautiful, orchestral arrangements, Tomlinson and his cast of players have created something very special indeed"
Record Collector
“Tomlinson is many things; a wordsmith, a commanding vocal presence, and a conductor of light and dark. But at his core, he is a deeply talented songwriter that can conjure emotion via the slightest movement"
The Line Of Best Fit (8/10)
"A work of delicate assurance that finds MF Tomlinson reaching towards unknowable truths"
Clash Magazine
"Gliding psych-rock... overflows with ideas – both musical and lyrical"
Beats Per Minute
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