Him & Earl live album launch

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Him & Earl celebrate the release of their debut LP, Falling Backwards on soulful independent record label Wah Wah 45s with a full live show. The album serves 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.The LPs 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.
Beautiful stuff from Him & Earl HUW STEPHENS (BBC 6 MUSIC)
Live support comes from singer-songwriter Dan Sumner. Dan started out playing folk clubs and open mic nights in London. His first single came out on Big Chill Recordings as part of Busking for Solaraid and since then he has gone on to release four albums and has performed around the UK and Europe sharing a stage with the likes of Dave Swarbrick (Fairport Convention) and Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin).
Dans latest release Old Haunts Revisited was released in November 2025 and is a blend of folk, blues and alt rock, layered with guitars, harmoniums, concertinas, strings and field recordings taken from Portugal and Spain, that will appeal to fans of PJ Harvey, John Francis Flynn, Big Thief, Richard Thompson, John Martyn and Lisa ONeill.
Dan is accompanied on cello and harmonium by Alexa Warnes and guitar and percussion by Pedro Medina.
Like the best music of the very great John Martyn, Dan touches sublime thoughts and then makes them intensely humanconjures the magic of the singer-songwriters of the 70s - FOLKING
DJ support comes from Wah Wah 45s label boss Dom Servini, a man whose been at the forefront of the UK eclectic music scene for over three decades.
A vital energy for our culture! - GILLES PETERSON (BBC 6 MUSIC)