Working Men's Club - Fear Fear (Deluxe Edition) (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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.”

Following the release of their album ‘Fear Fear’ earlier this year, Working Men’s Club have announced that they’ll be releasing a deluxe edition of the record on 28th October.

Featuring their ‘Steel City’ EP with remixes of album tracks from some of Sheffield’s most innovative producers, today they’re sharing Toddla T’s remix of ‘Money Is Mine’.

Speaking on the remix, Toddla T says, “As the original version stank of Sheffield, I wanted to do something that I would be itching to play in a set back home, particularly at Kabal or if I wasn’t in attendance something that I know Winnie or Pipes would draw for which was made for the dance-floors of Sheffield.”

“The first album was mostly personal lyrically, this is a blur between personal and a third-person perspective of what was going on,” WMC’s Syd Minsky-Sargeant says. “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.”

Tracklist:
Disc 1
1. 19 (05:48)
2. Fear Fear (04:27)
3. Widow (03:54)
4. Ploys (02:58)
5. Cut (06:50)
6. Rapture (03:13)
7. Circumference (03:48)
8. Heart Attack (04:51)
9. Money Is Mine (04:05)
10. The Last One (07:55)

Disc 2
1. Money Is Mine (Toddla T Home Sick Remix) (04:25)
2. Fear Fear (Charla Green Remix) (04:52)
3. Ploys (Ross Orton Remix) (05:55)
4. Rapture (Diessa Remix) (04:14)
5. The Last One (Forgemasters Remix) (08:11)


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