Rhumba Club's glitter romance waves on "The House Always Wins" (Official Video)

 

"how does it feel wearing that crown?"

Dancing to "The House Always Wins" by Rhumba Club, or in my case approximating something close to dancing, and I flashed on ABC ("The Look of Love" circa 1982). It is a wonderful flash, there is something sort of Martin Fry-esque about Tom Falle's supremely playfully vocal performance amid the lush electronic pop sound and circular funk guitar. The sense here lyrically might just be about tearing down icons on pedestals, or, at least not feeling too comfortable in a rarefied place. Digging the retro tones done so artfully and the kitsch motif sharpened and feeling like social commentary.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Ranked on GQ magazine’s list of 2020’s best new artists, Tom Falle (aka Rhumba Club) is a true queer 'artiste' (Tom Robinson) and his beautifully ironic and emotive pop songs “could make even an Erasure or WHAM! hater dance” (The Fader).


Normativity, was praised by The Line of Best Fit as an “empowering and emotive pop masterpiece”. Pocket Machine was described as “the perfect lockdown banger” by GQ Magazine and The Rhumba Club Is Waiting For Me, made Track of the Day on CLASH and Track of the Week on BBC Introducing.


His latest track, (I'm Gonna Construct) An Image received support from BBC Radio 6 & Spotify's The Other List, and features rising indie gem Abbie Ozard on backing vocals and Jack Flanagan of The Mystery Jets on bass.


Effortlessly shifting between writing soundtracks for Fendi campaigns, featuring in underwear shoots for Dazed x Calvin Klein, representing Sequential Instruments with his trusty Prophet 6, and holding sell-out shows across London, Rhumba Club is a renaissance man in the most modern sense.


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