Working Men’s Club announce new album & share video for single ‘Widow’

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ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM FEAR FEAR
OUT JULY 15 ON HEAVENLY RECORDINGS

SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘WIDOW

Photo credit: Lillie Eiger
Working Men’s Club today announce that their second album Fear Fear will be released on July 15 via Heavenly Recordings. Alongside the announcement, they also share new single ‘Widow,’ a pumped-up, amped-up electro-choral shout-out with stabs of Depeche Mode. The track is lead singer Sydney Minsky-Sargeant‘s empathetic reach out to those left behind by recent life, either literally or metaphorically: “Misery is bliss to me / I love you, now you’re dead you see / Lust was easy until you died now I fuck inside my head but not outside“.

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 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 puts it: “We just set out to make the best-sounding album we could.

Fear Fear was produced by Ross Orton (Arctic MonkeysMIATricky) and recorded at Orton’s studio in Sheffield.

Fear Fear by Working Men’s Club
is out July 15 on Heavenly Recordings
Preorder: https://ffm.to/fear-fear

Working Men’s Club
Fear Fear

1. 19
2. Fear Fear
3. Widow
4. Ploys
5. Cut
6. Rapture
7. Circumference
8. Heart Attack
9. Money Is Money
10. The Last One

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