Working Men’s Club share another cut in the form of ‘Circumference’ from their new album ‘Fear Fear.’
“I’m feeling alright now the time is passing by/the further we fall makes me feel fine”. It’s a song from someone stuck in time and place, built on the kind of crystalline, heaven sent synth lines that Depeche Mode or Human League used to trade in.
✹ LISTEN TO ‘CIRCUMFERENCE’ HERE ✹
For fans of the band this hypnotic new track this has been the opener for their most recent electrifying live shows.
After this spring’s triumphant debut shows in America, the band are excited to announce a series of intimate shows, in conjunction with some of the best independent record stores in the UK on album release week.
✹ TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE ✹
✹
‘Fear Fear’ will be released on July 15.
Songs created in the shadow of terror and loss, but that crackle and pop with defiance Fear Fear is a record made for agitating and dancing, for heart and soul, for here, now and tomorrow. It’s a record that explores juxtaposition; that of life and death, acceptance and isolation, environment and humanity, hope and despair, the real world and the digital world. That top to bottom rigour, the complete vision is what makes the second album from Working Men’s Club such a stunning and unique achievement.
Their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, released in summer 2020, was the sound of singer and songwriter Syd Minsky-Sargeant processing a teenage life in Todmorden in the Upper Calder Valley. He was 16 when he wrote some of those songs, now 20, he had to get up and out of the Valley. “The first album was mostly a personal documentation lyrically, this is a blur between personal and a third-person perspective of what was going on.” Fear Fear documents the last two years. Yes, there is bleakness – but there is also hope and empathy. “I like the contrast of it being happy, uplifting music and really dark lyrics. It’s not a minimal record, certainly compared to the first one. That’s because there’s been a lot more going on that needed to be said.”
Making the busy feel finessed and the dreadful feel magical – ‘Fear Fear’ manages those feats, and then some. Or, as Syd Minksy-Sargeant puts it: “We just set out to make the best-sounding album we could.”Fear Fear was produced by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, MIA, Tricky) and recorded at Orton’s studio in Sheffield.
✹ READ MORE ABOUT ‘FEAR FEAR’ HERE ✹ ‘FEAR FEAR’ TRACK-LISTING ✹
Available in several special edition formats, the artwork for the album has once again been designed by World Wide Wonder who created the award winning sleeve for the bands debut.
✹
The band have a summer of festivals before major tours to UK, Europe & US in the autumn.
⬇FOLLOW WORKING MEN’S CLUB⬇