Words: Ellie Ward
If you were wondering whatever happened to Tenterhook, the singer-songwriter from West London who first came our way back in 2014 with 'Stereo', you are about to be enlightened.
Following two swift EPs, singles, a Communion tour and festival appearances, things went a little quiet. Now Archie Faulks has reemerged under his own given name and ready to take on business again with his first taste of new material.
Released last week, 'It Rains' is a
richly crafted debut/return. The downtempo alt-folk piece is superbly crafted with a smoothly polished melody and Archie’s lush velvet voice delivering lyrics inspired by the end of a relationship.
“I wrote ‘It Rains’ about a dying, but once great, relationship," he says. "All we do now is fight and get back together again; with the memories of the glory days being the only thing bringing us back to each other. The love is still there, but I realise it's no longer helping either of us, but rather taking over our days and nights with worry, anger and fear. It’s a love for things we did together and the feeling we gave each other, but not for the other person themselves. The song is the realisation of this but wanting to retreat to ‘our place’ and cling on for a few more days in the vague hope that we can regain an element of the past and not let us be washed away by the flood."
And it looks like his touch hasn't waned any, as his live return on September 4 at London's Servant Jazz Quarters has already sold out. Catch his next show on November 12 at St Pancras Church before that sells out too.
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