HONCHO is a through-composed album — no gaps, no breathers — tracing Rhumba Club’s experience of queer London throughout his twenties in the 2010s. It is heavily influenced by the work of the legendary Patrick Cowley and steeped in the sound of gay porn instrumentals pulsing with desire, innocence and everything in between.

The album begins with wide-eyed innocence, as Falle recalls being freshly arrived in the city, hungry for connection — and spirals into an odyssey of sexual awakenings, intense nights out, dubious massages, depressive lows, and the quiet violence of social hierarchies within queer spaces. By the end, the narrator is changed: more resilient, more aware, but a little emptier too. “I’ve become a HONCHO,” Falle says. “The word is used playfully, echoing retro queer culture, but it’s also pointed. This record isn’t here to glorify transformation; it’s here to question what happens to us in a culture shaped by apps, image, and performance.”