Rhumba Club drops new single ‘Animal/Lover’ with Patrick Wolf
The track is taken from Rhumba Club's upcoming album HONCHO, out 15 October
Singer Rhumba Club (Tom Falle) has released his new single ‘Animal/Lover’, a collaboration with Patrick Wolf — the first time the latter has ever featured on another artist’s record.
The track is taken from London-based Rhumba Club’s newly announced album HONCHO, out 15 October.
The track explores a 3am conversation of sexual dynamics between two lovers.
The collaboration happened completely organically, when Falle received “a surprising and charming” DM for Patrick, which read: “Mr R.Club I’ve done two runs this week along the sea and through the graveyard to your album! Thank you so much for the wonderful music.”
“It was such an honour to write this song with Tom” – Patrick Wolf on Rhumba Club
In a statement about the collab, Falle said: “The arrival of Patrick’s vulnerability, voice, and perspective felt like the only way this album could end.”
Discussing their relationship, Wolf recently said of Falle in a statement: “Since encountering the Love Apokalypto album last summer, the story of a young analogue synthesiser maestro arriving in London from Channel Islands armed with a musical and visual world he has been dreaming up to share called ‘Rhumba Club’ remains a magical foundation I adore that, I am sure will give us all many albums of brilliant work I cannot wait to experience over the years.
“It was such an honour to write this song with Tom and to be a guest on the dancefloor at his club, ‘Animal/Lover’ was the exact vehicle I needed to drive for a brief, sexual escape from the weight of the writing I was working through on my last album, so I am grateful for that opportunity too. All of my synthesiser heroes are one person world creators like Mort Garson, Tomita and Wendy Carlos, I see echoes of all three in Tom and his Rhumba Club.”
On the title of his album, Falle also said: “I’ve become a HONCHO. The word is used playfully, echoing retro queer culture, but it’s also pointed. This record isn’t here to glorify transformation; it’s here to question what happens to us in a culture shaped by apps, image, and performance.”