Working Males’s Membership’s Sydney Minsky Sargeant has shared the newest taster of his debut solo album – hearken to ‘Lengthy Roads’ beneath.
The singer will launch ‘Lunga’ on September 12 by way of Domino and it’s out there 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 based mostly round a recurring finger-picked guitar motif. Take a look at the track’s video, directed by Nick Griffiths, right here:
Talking in regards to the monitor, Minsky Sargeant has mentioned: “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 track as a result of it’s a real and sincere feeling and one which I’m not embarrassed to confess or settle for. However it’s additionally okay to say I bought some stuff fallacious and I’m no excellent particular person. I’m simply dwelling every day making an attempt to make sense of the world round me.”
Per a press launch, ‘Lunga’ is billed as “a gorgeous side-step from the music that Sydney Minsky Sargeant has been recording as Working Males’s Membership for the previous seven years”. Its songs had been written over a interval of a number of years, some courting again to when Sargeant was a young person rising up in Todmorden.
“I’m making an attempt to put on my heart-on-my-sleeve a bit extra, these songs come from a seek for that means and understanding,” mentioned Sargeant. “I’m all the time making an attempt to unpick myself and people round me, those I really like and cherished essentially the most. There have been ideas and emotions that these songs helped me specific, handle and make sense of.”
Reflecting on the album’s title, he mentioned ‘Lunga’ “is one other approach of claiming we’re all one and the identical deep down and that we should always attempt to keep in mind that a bit 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 ‘Worry Worry’, the follow-up to their self-titled debut album. It obtained 4 stars from NME in 2022, who famous: “Positive, it’s a dizzying panorama, however the chaotic palette does justice to the devastation and confusion confronted in recent times. Working Males’s Membership definitely put on the trauma nicely, however this riveting exploration actually thrives by in search of the sunshine past the gloom.”
