Kyle Falconer (The View)

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 February 7th 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’s lead single and brand new track ‘Angelina’ is an instant highlight and will be unveiled on December 20th.
Dramatic percussion and sweeping string arrangements creates an intense cinematic atmosphere to match a story of a
relationship which has been ruined by conflicting perceptions on what the truth really is.