: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : 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.....: 278kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://workingmensclub.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 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 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 47:24 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 99.80 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: 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. ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/