They had arrived by surprise at the end of 2020, in October to be exact, at the end of a sacrificed year for music. They are already back, between two concerts during an intensive European tour, with a sound that currently belongs only to them.
Anger was already at the center of the album before everything we’ve been experiencing for months
Syd Minsky-Sargeant, Working Men’s Club
Working Men’s Club is Manchester, that of Joy Division gave way to the Haçienda on this second album, this mythical club disappeared where acid house helped to face a not very glorious daily life. But Working Men’s Club is above all Syd, a magnetic young man of 20, singer and author.
FearFear, this second disc already, is very logically a window on his anger of the past months. “It was more of an existential reflection on my part, on my condition as a person at that time, he explains. But it coincided with the fact that certain subjects came to the fore precisely because of this uncomfortable period of the pandemic and the confinements.“.
A second album must be intense: you need moments of euphoria and sadness
Syd Minsky-Sargeant, Working Men’s Club
Finally, Working Men’s Club is the dance that lets off steam, the perfect balance between hope and disenchantment. And it really is a band to see in concert, absolutely. Syd clarifies:Frankly, we never imagined that someone could show up at our concerts, but it did us good to see that we hadn’t been forgotten… I was repressing such a feeling of frustration, of not being able to go out, that at the first opportunity to play live, we seized it“. Better produced, more powerful, more successful, this second album already has everything of a classic, made to mark the summer.
Working Men’s Club, FearFear (Heavenly Recordings/Pias). Album available. To see live this summer at the Cabaret Vert on August 18, at the Route du Rock on the 19th, at the Check In Party in Guéret on the 20th then Tourcoing, Rouen and Paris at the start of the school year.