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Die To Wake Up From A Dream (2025)
PRAH Recordings
Top #75 Albums of 2025 MOJO
★★★★ MOJO
★★★★½ UNCUT
★★★½ The Line Of Best Fit
★★★★½ God Is In The TV
#45 of 2025 - Albumoftheyear.org
A hefty dose of genre-defying music... dabbling in folk, spacious prog, shoegaze, experimental country, and everything in between - THE NEEDLE DROP
Van Morrison's ethereality, Sigur Ros's songs within songs, add a touch of elegiac T.S. Eliot lyricism - UNCUT
Progressive dreamscape from ambitious Australian...embarking on a byzantine trajectory…Tomlinson redefines his own terms from record to record, a maverick outlier worth keeping both eyes on - PROG
Die To Wake Up From A Dream (2025) PRAH Recordings
Top #75 Albums of 2025 MOJO
★★★★ MOJO
★★★★½ UNCUT
★★★½ The Line Of Best Fit
★★★★½ God Is In The TV
#45 of 2025 - Albumoftheyear.org
A hefty dose of genre-defying music... dabbling in folk, spacious prog, shoegaze, experimental country, and everything in between - THE NEEDLE DROP
Van Morrison's ethereality, Sigur Ros's songs within songs, add a touch of elegiac T.S. Eliot lyricism - UNCUT
Progressive dreamscape from ambitious Australian...embarking on a byzantine trajectory…Tomlinson redefines his own terms from record to record, a maverick outlier worth keeping both eyes on - PROG
We Are Still Wild Horses (2023)
PRAH Recordings
★★★★½ Gigwise
★★★★ MOJO
★★★★ The Times
★★★★ The Line of Best Fit
#41 of 2023 - Albumoftheyear.org
Rivals Bill Callahan's 'Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle... celebrates community spirit with Leonards Cohen's elegance... blissful climaxes, taking in bucolic psychedelia, jazzy post-rock, and celestial synths with the freedom of The Necks. - UNCUT
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Strange Time (2021)
Self Released
★★★★ UNCUT
★★★★½ Gigwise
★★★★ MOJO
★★★★ Northern Transmissions
An artist who seems to use music as a means to excavate the soul - CLASH
Acid-folk pioneer; chamber-pop genius… MF Tomlinson, manages to be all of this and more on his glorious debut - GIGWISE
Acid-folk pioneer; chamber-pop genius… MF Tomlinson, manages to be all of this and more on his glo
PRAH Recordings
★★★★½ Gigwise
★★★★ MOJO
★★★★ The Times
★★★★ The Line of Best Fit
#41 of 2023 - Albumoftheyear.org
Rivals Bill Callahan's 'Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle... celebrates community spirit with Leonards Cohen's elegance... blissful climaxes, taking in bucolic psychedelia, jazzy post-rock, and celestial synths with the freedom of The Necks. - UNCUT
Strange Time (2021)
Self Released
★★★★ UNCUT
★★★★½ Gigwise
★★★★ MOJO
★★★★ Northern Transmissions
An artist who seems to use music as a means to excavate the soul - CLASH
Acid-folk pioneer; chamber-pop genius… MF Tomlinson, manages to be all of this and more on his glorious debut - GIGWISE
Acid-folk pioneer; chamber-pop genius… MF Tomlinson, manages to be all of this and more on his glo
MF Tomlinson is an Australian-born London-based artist who, with his collaborators the MFs, crafts sonic worlds that draw upon acid folk, prog, jazz and ambient music - lying somewhere between Bill Callahan, Yo La Tengo and Leonard Cohen.
Live Highlights:
Supports & Tours: Geese, TORRES, Dry Cleaning, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Festivals: The End Of The Road, Latitude, BIGSOUND (AUS), The Great Escape, Sea Change Weekender, Epäjohdonmukaisten Tanssiaiset (FIN)
Sold-out Headlines: MOTH Club, The Lexington, Shacklewell Arms
“Illuminating... Soaring flute and saxophone accompaniment. It was funny, musically rich and tinged with sadness.” - The Times on MF, The Great Escape
Press Support:
Mojo, Uncut, The Times, The Needle Drop, The Line Of Best Fit, Record Collector, Evening Standard, Rolling Stone, DIY Magazine, CLASH Magazine, The Arts Desk, Gigwise, Northern Transmissions, Music OMH, Beats Per Minute, MOWNO
"Tomlinson is many things; a wordsmith, a commanding vocal presence, and a conductor of light and dark... he is deeply talented songwriter” - The Line of Best Fit
Radio & Streaming
melomania, New Music Friday, The Listening Post, BBC Radio 6 Music, NTS, Worldwide FM, France Inter, WFUV, Radio X
“I absolutely love this album. It’s kind of got that old country, folky feel to it, but also a sort of baroque-pop flavour. I heartily recommend the record to you…” Mark Radcliffe, 6 Music on We Are Still Wild Horses
Release History:
2025: Die To Wake Up From A Dream + Remixed and Acoustic Sessions. We Are Still Wild Horses + Remixed & Dolby Atmos Mix, (2023) Strange Time (2021) (LP) Self-released, Last Days of Rome (2019) (EP) Remixes: Rozi Plain, Group Listening, Pictish Trail
Upcoming Releases:
Heaven Is Other People EP
Recorded in a few impromptu sessions, Heaven Is Other People is a collection of lo-fi gestural pieces on human connection through the lens of new fatherhood. The EP features regular collaborators Ed Grimshaw - Drums, Ben Manning - Bass, Gail Tasker - Flute, Kayvon Nabijou - Keys and Sax, a poem from MF's Grandfather and introducing ‘the new guy’ on the Korg Volca.
Recorded in a few impromptu sessions, Heaven Is Other People is a collection of lo-fi gestural pieces on human connection through the lens of new fatherhood. The EP features regular collaborators Ed Grimshaw - Drums, Ben Manning - Bass, Gail Tasker - Flute, Kayvon Nabijou - Keys and Sax, a poem from MF's Grandfather and introducing ‘the new guy’ on the Korg Volca.
Contact:
Management: Joly Checketts joly@warmth.agency
Management: Joly Checketts joly@warmth.agency