Fear Fear, by Working Men's Club

Fear Fear

by Working Men's Club

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Craig Jones Fuck me what an absolutely incredible album! WOW <3 Favorite track: Widow.

OutUrbanArtsBoy Rapture just for squeezing in one of the most undervalued organs of the human body: Hippocampus - a complex brain structure embedded deep into temporal lobe. It has a major role in learning and memory. It is a plastic and vulnerable structure that gets damaged by a variety of stimuli. Studies have shown that it also gets affected in a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Got aquatinted fully at Bluedot Fest 2022, and that wound into one whirling frenzy! Favorite track: Rapture.

graham63 Love the new album it has clearly been made to reflect the difficult and yet opportunist period of time we have been going through together. Favorite track: Heart Attack.

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9.	Money Is Mine 04:05	buy track
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about

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.”

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released July 15, 2022

Fear Fear was produced by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, MIA, Tricky) and recorded at Orton’s studio in Sheffield.

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Working Men's Club Manchester, UK

"Working Men's Club is about the music, the vibe, and that feeling, forcing you to move. Anyone can join"

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Manchester Academy

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O2 Forum Kentish Town

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