One True Pairing, aka Tom Fleming, former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, announced his second solo album, Endless Rain – due out 25th October via Domino.

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.

Sonically, Endless Rain is an ambitious and widescreen record quite unlike anything in Fleming’s back catalogue. The album includes previously released acclaimed singles “Frozen Food Centre”, “Mid-Life Crisis” and “Be Strong”.

The announce arrived alongside new single “A Landlord’s Death”. Featuring a wonderful arpeggio from MacDiamarda on the fiddle, “A Landlord’s Death” rises to a thrilling, and sonically wildly adventurous, climax. “Parasites the fucking lot. No tears shed for the guilty. We’re coming,” says Tom.

Directed by Michael Julings (Blue Bendy), the video for “A Landlord’s Death” depicts a gorging man in the midst of an indulgent, glutinous frenzy. Of the video, Tom comments: “We see our hero at a table full of his heart’s desires. He gobbles it down greedily, never stopping to think why he is there nor where his greed might lead him. He just can’t help himself can he?” This Is Pop? today’s song of the day is here for you.