Kyle Falconer releases new single "Angelina"
Kyle Falconer has announce a new album out on 7 February 2025 entitled “The One I Love The Most”, an acoustic set of classic songs by The View and solo tracks inspired by women.
The album’s lead single and brand new single Angelina is an instant highlight. Dramatic percussion and sweeping string arrangements create an intense cinematic atmosphere to match a story of a relationship which has been ruined by conflicting perceptions on what the truth really is.
You can stream Angelina now on your preferred platform HERE, and you can check it out on YouTube below:
Kyle Falconer has always been a songwriter who has been inspired by a female muse. From his chart-topping success with The View through to his acclaimed solo career, his storytelling songs have explored the good times of love and lust; the bad times of regret and heartache; and stories of some of the larger-than-life characters who have stepped into his life, alongside some playful fictional narratives.
Recently crowned with the King Tuts’ Songwriting Award at the Scottish Music Awards, Kyle brings the best of those songs together with “The One I Love The Most” which will be released on 7 February ahead of Valentine’s Day. The album is a collection of songs from his vast back catalogue, all of which are named after women and have been newly reworked in acoustic form.
Named after a lyric taken from The View fan favourite 5 Rebeccas, “The One I Love The Most” features songs spanning almost two decades: from the unrequited love of Claudia (from the band’s #1 debut album “Hats Off To The Buskers”) through to the lovelorn Dixie (the original of which featured on last year’s Top 10 return ‘Exorcism of Youth’).
Along the way, the album also reinvents highlights from his two solo albums “No Thank You” and “No Love Songs For Laura”, which often tackled more complicated themes: Laura shares regrets for his past behaviour and the impact it had on his then-partner and now-wife Laura Wilde, to the issues of gender identity addressed in Kelly. A far lighter moment comes with Madonna, a playful, celeb-heavy imagining of what the ideal afterlife might be like, while Manchester rapper PROSE adds his razor-sharp rhymes to an otherwise stripped-back Lucy.
The album “The One I Love The Most” is out on 7 February 2025 via Assai Records and will be available in a number of formats, including six limited edition vinyl formats, one of which is a special Obi Edition that’s available exclusively via Assai Records. The album is available to pre-order now HERE.
Kyle says, “‘The One I Love The Most’ came from an idea I had after getting my own studio in Spain. I thought about all the girls' names I had written about and thought it would be a great romantic idea to put them all in one place and release the record for Valentine’s Day. I wanted to show the songs as they were without all the production and we captured the first essence of them.
It’s great to see the different feelings along the album and my ups and downs, from the childlike writing of ‘Claudia’ to the more in depth idea of ‘Kelly’ as I have seen and heard more of the world.”
“The One I Love The Most” was recorded at Kyle’s La Sierra Casa retreat near Alicante in Spain, with Kyle producing the project himself and performing all vocals and instruments except for contributions from Drew Palmer and Neeve Zahra.
A scenic, escapist and intimate hub for creativity, La Sierra Casa hosts regular songwriting camps led by Kyle as well as a recording studio designed to achieve peak sound quality, workflow and productivity. Several emerging artists have benefited from the camp, including Ben Walker and Cammy Barnes, while La Sierra Casa will welcome special guest experts Justin Hawkins (The Darkness), Carl Barât (The Libertines), Jamie Webster and Laurie Vincent (Soft Play) to its upcoming songwriting camps.
There’s much more on Kyle Falconer’s calendar, starting next month when The View play a Greatest Hits tour of Scotland which culminates with two Glasgow shows at the O2 Academy, while they’re also confirmed for several UK festivals next summer.
“The One I Love The Most” tracklist
1 - Dixie - (originally from ‘Exorcism of Youth’)
2 - Rebecca - (‘Which Bitch?’)
3 - Gem - (‘Which Bitch?’)
4 - Blondie - (‘Bread And Circuses’)
5 - Lilly Anne - (‘No Thank You’)
6 - Penny - (Ropewalk’)
7 - Laura - (‘No Love Songs For Laura’)
8 - Lucy (featuring PROSE) - (‘No Love Songs For Laura’)
9 - Claudia - (‘Hats Off To The Buskers’)
10 - Kelly - (‘No Thank You’)
11 - Madonna - (‘No Thank You’)
12 - Angelina - (new song)
Out on 7 February 2025, available to pre-order now HERE
