With songs featuring on a number of TV soundtracks (Skins, Hard Knocks, Kid Poker), major films including Comet, Anesthesia, The Odyssey (2016) as well as Vodafone’s official campaign, Tom Rosenthal has seen his audience grow firmly, promptly and rapidly with more and more demand for his music.
It is worth mentioning that he’s achieved all this fully on his own and without any help from a manager, record label, publisher, booking agent, PR or PA. Subsequently, his YouTube channel, showcasing his award-winning music videos (which he’s won for Best Video at the European Independent Film Festival 2017), has now amassed well over 30 million views and his Spotify streams well over 60 million.
Speaking about his latest video, directed by Hannah Jacobs (Vogue, Harper Collins, VICE), Tom says:
“The video is about a couple meeting on a train for the first time and the starting of a romantic spark that prompts the male character to give the female character a pineapple but it’s a magic pineapple…Hannah is an incredible animator with a style totally unique to her and I’ve been lucky enough to work with her for a few years now. Our previous collaborations have been viewed over 4 million times so something must be right!” Watch the video for ‘Take Over‘ below.
Tom has now released his highly-anticipated new album, Fenn. Sonically, it fits in with the likes of Bon Iver, James Vincent McMorrow, and Father John Misty.
The album was written and recorded following the birth of his 2nd child (named Fenn) and is his most ambitious project to date. Having previously stuck to simple acoustic instrumentation, here Rosenthal expands into the world of trumpets, choirs, and 1970’s Moogs. Comprised of 15 varied tracks, “Fenn’ was composed as an antidote to the troubled and shifting times of 2016. So apart from ‘P.A.S.T.A”, here we find songs ranging from reflections on modern man’s coffee habits (‘What’s Getting You Down, James?’), to songs simply focused on rising above it all (‘Throw The Fear, It Won’t Be Me’).
The single ‘Take Over’ and the album Fenn are available now. Stream the full album below.
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