FYFE’s new single is the beautiful ‘For You’, which has already been Zane Lowe’s Next Hype on Radio 1 and gone Top 3 on Hype Machine. This follows a breakout year for 24-year-old Paul Dixon, with tracks like ‘Solace’ and ‘Conversations’ picking up over one million plays on Soundcloud, a hat trick of Top 10s on Hype Machine, and additional support across Radio 1, 6Music and XFM.
A confident and idiosyncratic return, ‘For You’ is a maze of pianos, double-time hip-hop beats and FYFE’s nearfalsetto croon. About two thirds of the way through, the song is suddenly interrupted by a playfully epic saxophone solo, a testament to the symphonic, occasionally-classical textures that persist through Dixon’s work, and his continual willingness to take risks.
Still just 24, FYFE is a journey in self-discovery from an artist who has picked himself back up and come back stronger. What started life as a project about reasserting control has blossomed into the intimate, personal romanticism.