Working Males’s Membership’s Sydney Minsky Sargeant has shared the newest taster of his debut solo album – take heed to ‘Lengthy Roads’ beneath.
The singer will launch ‘Lunga’ on September 12 by way of Domino and it’s obtainable to pre-order right here. Final month, he additionally launched the report’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. Try the track’s video, directed by Nick Griffiths, right here:
Talking concerning the observe, 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 trustworthy feeling and one which I’m not embarrassed to confess or settle for. But it surely’s additionally okay to say I received some stuff mistaken and I’m no excellent individual. I’m simply residing every day attempting to make sense of the world round me.”
Per a press launch, ‘Lunga’ is billed as “a stupendous 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 relationship again to when Sargeant was an adolescent 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,” mentioned Sargeant. “I’m at all times attempting to unpick myself and people round me, those I like and cherished 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 mentioned ‘Lunga’ “is one other manner of claiming we’re all one and the identical deep down and that we must always attempt to do not forget that just a little extra. In a world that has by no means felt so scary and polarised, I simply hope this album connects with individuals.”
Sargeant can also 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 acquired 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 effectively, however this riveting exploration really thrives by in search of the sunshine past the gloom.”