Former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Tom Fleming performs music from his new project, One True Pairing.

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Having played the last Wild Beasts gig in early 2018, Fleming went back to basics with One True Pairing. Written entirely by himself, Fleming brought on Ben Hillier (Depeche Mode, Nadine Shah, Graham Coxon) to produce his first music, startlingly intimate and gorgeously realised. Deeply personal, with a wider political resonance, the cornerstones of One True Pairing are male identity, class and taste. The project title is taken from internet fan fiction, where writers imagine a perfect relationship they always wish existed.

'Beautiful and elegiac... delivered with sincerity and containing hard-bitten truths, [this is] that rarest of creatures, a performer with something to say.'
The Quietus

'Gorgeous chasm of a voice.'
The Guardian

'The husky, baroque vocals of former Wild Beast Tom Fleming make existential dread sound strangely enticing.'
The Observer

'Remarkable... gritty and heartbreaking.'
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