MF Tomlinson’s new EP would place him at odds with Ben Rumson, who famously claimed to be born beneath a planet, and asked the rhetorical question “Do you know where hell is ?” By comparison Tomlinson would like it to be known that in his opinion Heaven Is Other People. It’s an attitude he’s willing to back up saying “Sometimes the power of a song is to reach for meaning words cannot access. At other times it’s a gift that lets you name something profound – so simply – that it feels effortless. It’s too easy to forget in the cynicism of our day-to-day that it’s people who make our lives what they are, and people that we will see in our dreams.” Speaking specifically to today’s song, he add that “My experience of becoming a parent has all been quite unexpected. Having something so powerfully and wholly wonderful and good in my world that just blows all the fears that used to monopolise my time away. I’ve got something better to live for now – now, I am free.”
Heaven Is Other People is Tomlinson’s first body of work since completing a remarkable self-produced album trilogy with 2025’s Die To Wake Up From A Dream. Written following the birth of his first child and recorded during impromptu sessions at his studio in Poplar, London, Tomlinson describes Heaven Is Other People as “a collection of lo-fi gestural pieces on human connection“. On the EP he is joined by regular collaborators (the “MFs”): Ed Grimshaw (drums), Ben Manning (bass), Gail Tasker (flute) and Kayvon Nabijou (keys and saxophone).
