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Artist......: Working Men's Club
Album.......: Working Men's Club
Label.......: Heavenly Recordings
Genre.......: Electronic
Catnr.......: HVNLP179CD
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2020-12-23
Str.date....: 2020-10-02
Quality.....: 977 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://workingmensclub.bandcamp.com
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1. Valleys 6:30
2. A.A.A.A. 3:06
3. John Cooper Clarke 5:27
4. White Rooms & People 2:30
5. Outside 2:51
6. Be My Guest 3:56
7. Tomorrow 4:04
8. Cook A Coffee 2:50
9. Teeth 3:41
10. Angel 12:29
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,: A rumble on the horizon. Gritted teeth, nuclear fizz and :,
: fissured rock. A dab of pill dust from a linty pocket before it :
:' hits: the atom split, pool table overturned, pint glass smashed ':
,: ù valley fever breaking with the clouds as the inertia of small :,
: town life is well and truly disrupted. Here to bust out of :
:' Doledrum, clad in a t-shirt that screams SOCIALISM and armed ':
,: with drum machine, synth, pedal and icy stare are Working MenÆs :,
: Club, and their self-titled debut album. :
:' ':
,: ItÆs hard to believe that the three fresh-faced music college :,
: kids who bounced out of nowhere and onto the 6 Music playlist :
:' with the sweet-but-potent, twangy guitar-led æBad BloodÆ ':
,: (Melodic Records) in 2019 are the same band who clattered back :,
: there with maddening techno-cowbell- puncher æTeethÆ less than :
:' half a year later ù and thatÆs because for the most part, ':
,: theyÆre not. Having signed to Heavenly and with the hype around :,
: them building, underlying tensions came to a boil a mere five :
:' days before the bandÆs all-important first London headline ':
,: show, and wunderkind frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant was left high :,
: and dry; guitarist Giulia Bonometti had decided to focus on her :
:' blossoming solo career, and drummer Jake Bogacki was against ':
,: the new electronic direction Minsky-Sargeant saw Working MenÆs :,
: Club taking. (ôI guess WMC started off as a bit more :
:' guitar-based, tryna copy stuff in our own way, like the Velvets ':
,: and stuff like that, but I didnÆt want it to be that anymore. It :,
: became dancier and dancier as I tried to experimentö, he :
:' explains.) All that remained of the outfit was Minsky-Sargeant ':
,: himself, recently recruited bassist Liam Ogburn, and ù given the :,
: bandÆs indebtment to wood panelled, community-run venues for an :
:' early leg-up ù a rather pertinent name. But with staunch ':
,: determination burning in his belly, Minsky-Sargeant quickly :,
: assembled a lineup consisting of himself, Ogburn, and Mairead :
:' OÆConnor (The Moonlandingz) and Rob Graham (Drenge, Baba Naga) ':
,: ù both of whom he had met at the Sheffield studio of producer :,
: Ross Orton (The Fall, M.I.A., Arctic Monkeys) ù replaced the :
:' live drums with a drum machine, and rush-rehearsed the new ':
,: setup before going ahead with the show. ôIf it wasnÆt for :,
: Sheffield then we probably wouldnÆt have played that gigö he :
:' says. ôI was shitting myself, because I didnÆt know what would ':
,: work or not.ö Luckily, something stuck: ôAfter about three gigs :,
: with that lineup it was already way better than what weÆd had :
:' before.ö ':
,: :,
: Two original members lighter and three new ones the richer, :
:' Working MenÆs Club took on a new hard-edge permutation, their ':
,: shows becoming ever more sweaty, pulsating and rammed to the :,
: rafters; their energy raw; their vigour renewed; their interplay :
:' as musicians growing ever-more intuitive and elastic. Their ':
,: eponymous collection of songs is equal parts Calder Valley :,
: restlessness and raw Sheffield steel; guitars locking horns with :
:' floor-filling beats, synths masquerading as drums and ':
,: Minsky-SargeantÆs scratchy, electrifying bedroom demos brought :,
: to their full potential by OrtonÆs blade-sharp yet sensitive :
:' production. ':
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