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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.
(19 June) Today MF Tomlinson reveals new single 'My Hand In Yours', the compelling final taster of his highly anticipated new album 'Die To Wake Up From A Dream', out 11th July on PRAH Recordings. Tomlinson today also announces new UK tour dates for the autumn, with stops in Brighton, Manchester, Cardiff, Bristol and Leeds.
(19 June) Today MF Tomlinson reveals new single 'My Hand In Yours', the compelling final taster of his highly anticipated new album 'Die To Wake Up From A Dream', out 11th July on PRAH Recordings. Tomlinson today also announces new UK tour dates for the autumn, with stops in Brighton, Manchester, Cardiff, Bristol and Leeds.
New single 'My Hand In Yours' arrives on waves of reverb-drenched pedal steel, capturing the stillness and intimacy of moments spent in his wife’s presence. A gorgeous slowcore-folk meditation featuring Jacken Elswyth (Shovel Dance Collective) on banjo, the song explore the quiet experience of living in love - his wife’s hand a physical embodiment of their connection.
Echoing the emotive twang of Bill Callahan and the dreamlike haze of Mazzy Star, the track swells with understated beauty. Tomlinson’s lyrics are no less poetic: “My hand in yours is a path that I can follow,” he sings, as pedal steel traces the emotional thread. “Your voice in my head, so I don’t get lost.”
Reflecting on the single, Tomlinson said:
"My wife once told me about an exercise where you close your eyes and let someone lead you down the street to understand what it’s like to be blind. We lived on Amhurst Road, across from Hackney Central, and tried it one Saturday on our way into town. You can picture that while listening for some added comedy.
It struck me that often, that's all we're ever doing - following the path of a friend, a companion, someone we love. How in most ways, it's the only path we ever need. So yeah it's a love song pure and simple - it still chokes me up! Jacken Elswyth (of herself and of Shovel Dance Collective) plays the banjo at the end. I’m a Jacken stan and feel truly honoured to have her on this — the way she plays lifts the whole thing somewhere new, especially with the birdsong in there too (I feel it gives the ending a little of Jim O’Rourke’s 'Halfway to a Threeway')."
'Die To Wake Up From A Dream' is MF Tomlinson's third studio album, and marks the final chapter in a trilogy of self-produced full lengths, following the critically acclaimed 2021 debut 'Strange Time' and 2023's 'We Are Still Wild Horses', respectively drawing universal praise from Uncut, Mojo, The Times, The Arts Desk, Record Collector, The Line of Best Fit, CLASH Magazine 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 previous single 'Blink And You'll Miss It', the liminal landscapes of instrumental tracks 'A Dream' and 'A Meadow (Part I)’ to the stormy, tumultuous 'Your Flight (Dying/Another Dream)' featuring vocals by Dry Cleaning's Florence Shaw, the universe Tomlinson has created is hyper-real; the falling of a pin detectable in the midst of a raging storm at sea.
MF Tomlinson has shared three songs from the new album so far - its ambitious centrepiece and 9-minute title track ‘Die To Wake Up From A Dream’, the lush, expansive album opener 'Blink And You'll Miss It', and the assured, poignant beauty of 'I'm On The Border - receiving early plaudits from The Needle Drop, Rolling Stone, The Line of Best Fit, CLASH Magazine, Rough Trade, and more.