One True Pairing, is the project of Tom Fleming, former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. Today he releases new single “Human Frailty,” a track taken from his forthcoming solo LP Endless Rain, available October 25th via Domino Records.

On “Human Frailty:” “Well we try and we try and it has a good laugh at our expense,” says Tom. “It’s not a fight you win. That’s the thing about bravery, it’ll use you up. It doesn’t matter if you see it coming or not. I’ve been listening to a lot of country? In general this sort of wisened country/folk stuff suits me more as I get older.”

It was Christmas in Cumbria, and at the end of 2019 that Fleming felt that he had ran out of road. “It was off the back of a lot of personal difficulties,” he reflects, “a loss of income, a loss of house, everything. It rained solidly for about a week.” Fleming reflected on his life and watched the downpour. “The brown, mucky water rising and the creatures that live in it.”

Recorded in Dublin in 2022 with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, black midi, caroline) at Dublin’s Hellfire studios, 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. Fleming’s long term collaborator Josh Taylor-Moon arranged, engineered and played on the record, as well as features by Lankum’s Cormac MacDiamarda and Percolator’s Eleanor Mylor.

“I didn’t write anything for ages and then it all happened at once,” says Fleming of the remarkable burst of creativity that first led to Endless Rain, “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.” What came out was in turn tender, reflective and autobiographical. Fleming still seems bewildered about how it all came out, and where from. “Frozen Food Centre” in particular, clocking in at 7 minutes, is a poignant small-town vignette about childhood, where home is a place to escape and there are ghosts in the aisles of supermarkets.

One True Pairing 2024 Tour Dates

Nov 16 – Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London

Pre-order Endless Rain HERE