Welcome To The Rhumba Club

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1.	Primitive 03:33	buy track
2.	Welcome to the Rhumba Club 04:24	buy track
3.	Pocket Machine 04:24	buy track
4.	Conversion 04:06	buy track
5.	Guess This Is Love? 03:28	buy track
6.	Normativity 04:04	buy track
7.	(I'm Gonna Construct) An Image 04:21	buy track
8.	Guilty 03:22	buy track
9.	The Rhumba Club Is Waiting For Me 03:43	buy track
10.	The Country 03:36	buy track

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Tom Falle’s Rhumba Club is a place for real misfits. Not necessarily the fist-pumping flag-waving types, but more likely those who really do find themselves alienated by popular culture. These are the folk who crave a space where conventional ‘coolness’, social media, and personal demons are left outside the club door, whilst queerness and beautiful weirdos hold fort within.

Tom’s story is fascinating. Growing up gay in conservative Jersey, he knows what it is to regulate and repress your inner queer.

His childhood solution was to create a private escapist world, where classic 70s and 80s pop plays on repeat, and your choice
of outfit is determined by how you feel, rather than by what mummy, daddy, or the hipster next door thinks.

10 years later, after making his way through London indie bands (with varying degrees of success), he has codified and packaged this queer escape, creating a kind of audio-Eden for queers and geeks, culminating in debut album ‘Welcome To The Rhumba Club’.

Kicking off with brass fanfare and burgeoning into a euphoric haze of 80s synths, album opener ‘Primitive’ is very much an “I have arrived moment” explains Falle. It’s a love song in its purest sense, but at the same time a summary of what Rhumba Club is about - being your most honest or...’primitive’...self.

From condemning conversion therapy in recent single, ‘Conversion’, quipping about heteronormative structures on ‘Normativity’, to being queer in a small, socially conservative place on ‘The Country’, the album is loaded with powerful themes around sexuality and culture, all doused with a colourful whit and infectious pop sounds.

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released January 15, 2024

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Rhumba Club London, UK

Rhumba Club is Jersey born synth-pop artist/producer Tom Falle.

Inspired by Talking Heads, Blood Orange & Disco, he reworks familiar tropes to create a retro-futuristic escape - the Rhumba Club.

Since its inception in 2019, Rhumba Club’s mission has been to provide a space where social norms and personal demons are left at the door, whilst queerness and beautiful weirdos hold fort within. ... more

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