Working Males’s Membership’s Sydney Minsky Sargeant has shared the newest taster of his debut solo album – take heed to ‘Lengthy Roads’ under.
The singer will launch ‘Lunga’ on September 12 through Domino and it’s obtainable to pre-order right here. Final month, he additionally launched the document’s minimalistic lead single ‘I Don’t Wanna’.
Now, he has given followers one other glimpse of the album within the type of ‘Lengthy Roads’, a reflective slow-burner primarily based round a recurring finger-picked guitar motif. Try the tune’s video, directed by Nick Griffiths, right here:
Talking concerning the monitor, Minsky Sargeant has stated: “I don’t wish to sound all hippy dippy, however this album helped me realise it’s okay to like and say that inside a tune as a result of it’s a real and trustworthy feeling and one which I’m not embarrassed to confess or settle for. Nevertheless it’s additionally alright to say I obtained some stuff fallacious and I’m no good particular person. I’m simply residing every day attempting to make sense of the world round me.”
Per a press launch, ‘Lunga’ is billed as “a phenomenal side-step from the music that Sydney Minsky Sargeant has been recording as Working Males’s Membership for the previous seven years”. Its songs have been written over a interval of a number of years, some courting again to when Sargeant was a teen rising up in Todmorden.
“I’m attempting to put on my heart-on-my-sleeve a bit extra, these songs come from a seek for that means and understanding,” stated Sargeant. “I’m all the time attempting to unpick myself and people round me, those I like and liked probably the most. There have been ideas and emotions that these songs helped me specific, tackle and make sense of.”
Reflecting on the album’s title, he stated ‘Lunga’ “is one other means of claiming we’re all one and the identical deep down and that we should always attempt to keep in mind that somewhat extra. In a world that has by no means felt so scary and polarised, I simply hope this album connects with folks.”
Sargeant can be a member of supergroup Demise Of Love alongside producer Daniel Avery and James Greenwood, aka Ghost Tradition, who lately launched their self-titled debut EP.
The newest Working Males’s Membership album was ‘Concern Concern’, the follow-up to their self-titled debut album. It obtained 4 stars from NME in 2022, who famous: “Certain, it’s a dizzying panorama, however the chaotic palette does justice to the devastation and confusion confronted lately. Working Males’s Membership definitely put on the trauma properly, however this riveting exploration actually thrives by in search of the sunshine past the gloom.”
