Personal Trainer and Pip Blom unveil new collaborative project Long Fling

After working together in various guises for nearly a decade, Dutch indie figureheads Pip Blom and Personal Trainer  frontman Willem Smit have raised the curtain on their new collaborative project, Long Fling. 

A project of duets in the most unconventional sense, Long Fling will release their self-titled debut album on 3rd October - the dissonant first taste of which, ‘Flung’, is out now. It comes in the wake of Pip Blom’s latest EP, ‘Grip’, which landed in June, while Personal Trainer’s second album ‘Still Waiting’ dropped last year. 

Speaking about their partnership, Willem has shared that “over the years, I feel we’ve grown more comfortable making music together. Assembling a record we have been accidentally making without the goal of making a record was fun, but also weird. It felt a bit like archaeology sometimes. We tried to change things… but found out quite quickly that it made most sense to stay true to the initial ideas we had.”

Characterising ‘Long Fling’ as “a true blend of the both of us”, Pip has also noted: “we’d never done everything including the mixing ourselves before. I think we both felt comfortable doing it this time because we were in it together, and we were okay with the idea that the record didn’t need to be super polished or perfect. When we each asked our dads whether the album sounded more like a Willem album or a Pip album, they both said the other’s name.” 

Watch the charmingly DIY video for ‘Flung’ below.