Him Earl - Falling Backwards - Vinyl Record - F659z

	£		30
	$		40

About this Item

The item format is a vinyl
This specific sale is a new release, shipped direct from the manufacturer
The Artist Name is Him & Earl
The Title is Falling Backwards

Condition New

Other Comments
Falling Backwards is the debut album from Him & Earl via Wah Wah 45s, serving up a mystic brew of desert blues, English folk, Americana and stirring southern soul, with tentacles stretching out into psychedelia and prog, across 11 hot and hazy tracks. Singer-songwriter Olly Him and DJ, producer and composer Wyndham Earl both have deeply-dug roots in the south coast of England, with the former making his name as a solo artist before exploring his soulful folk/prog sound with a number of live acts, and the latter collaborating on albums and sharing stages with Bonobo, Khruangbin, Alice Russell and TM Juke, having remixes released by Tru Thoughts and Mr Bongo Records and releasing his solo projects on his Time Spun imprint. The pair first met in 2015 when Wyndham produced some songs for now defunct hypnotic Afro-folk outfit Creatures Of The Deep, of which Olly was a founder member. They instantly clicked, but after the group broke up it was a few years before serendipity brought them back together a chance encounter at a gig saw them begin hatching plans to make a full album under the name Him & Earl with Olly writing the songs and Wyndham arranging and producing the project. After so long floating in the creative ether, the connective power of these songs has been strikingly immediate. The debut Him & Earl live show in early 2026, before any tracks had even come out, blew Olly and Wyndhams expectations out of the water as their five-piece band found themselves toe-to-toe with a sellout crowd a sweaty room full of happy music fans, on an otherwise bleak January night, throwing shapes to live percussion showdowns, losing themselves in psychedelic guitar and bass wig-outs, and singing along to choruses theyd never heard a note of before. Since then, the first two singles Bottled Up and Away have had high profile airplay from the likes of BBC 6 Musics Huw Stephens and Cerys Matthews, and Radio Xs John Kennedy, adding to widespread tastemaker and specialist support around the world, as excitement builds for the album.Thes introspective and philosophical lyrics are brought to life by a sonorous yet strangely uplifting sound palette that morphs by stealth into a darkly propulsive, psychedelic and bluesy trip. Opening song Away taps straight into a key theme of the record journeying, in both a physical and mental sense, and the quest to move on and embrace the unknown and its sunny guitars, trumpet and violin barely even hint at the tumultuous sonic adventure thats set to unfold. A stronger indication comes in the title track,Falling Backwards, as its elegant web of staccato finger-picked hook, fluid piano melodies and strings unfurls into a six-minute exploration of what Olly describes as going through every day normality while feeling close to chaos and like things could fall apart at any moment when there is a myriad of dierent things holding everything together and if one thing goes wrong everything can fall apart around it. Better Days swiftly restores a sense of upbeat calm, with lively Kora and Afrobeat-inspired guitar licks, atmospheric trumpet and a harmony-clad mantra of hope on the horizon the folky Bottled Up continues that blissful notion with undulating finger-picked guitar, earthy clarinet counter-melodies and celestial murmurations of delicately plucked strings. The magnetic pull toward more mysterious horizons comes via the dusty twang of Wild West-esque guitars on Open Road, a nomadic journey of self-discovery through spacious sonic plains embellished with eerie flickers of flute and clarinet. This leftward turn gathers pace in the trancelike psych-prog depths of Preside, an instrumental cut at the albums pivotal halfway point. Hypnotic, guttural desert blues-infused riffs on Inside channel the feeling of a psychedelic or spiritual trip where, in Ollys words, something clicks and you understand things on a different level it makes you see inside yourself and see things in a different way. Shadow overhead brings a lighter touch to a darker subject the feeling of paranoia and being locked away from the world drawn from Ollys own experience and also his years of working in and around mental health. Exuberant horns lend hope to loosely looping suspense on Blindside about being caught out by the unexpected, and searching for something to see or hear to pick you up again and then mesh with urgent strings, low-slung guitars and subterranean bass on Around Again, which explores the modern fight to stay afloat amid the endless churn of information and distractions. Still plumbing the bassy, bluesy depths of this journey into the psyche, You Can Only Know is a dreamlike revelation about finding someone or something that helps to make sense of the world. Luminescent synths duck and weave, while a rock-solid bass riff is tracked by a soul-soothing four-part hey hey harmony, reassuring as a glowing lamp in the window at the end of a life-changing trip.

The Media Condition is New

This is new and unplayed

New unplayed

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