Working Males’s Membership’s Sydney Minsky Sargeant is releasing a solo album ‘Lunga’, and has previewed it with the lead single ‘I Don’t Wanna’.
The album will probably be launched on September 12 by way of Domino and is obtainable to pre-order right here.
Per a press launch, ‘Lunga’ is billed as “a fantastic 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 youngster 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,” stated Sargeant. “I’m at all times making an attempt to unpick myself and people round me, those I like and beloved probably the most. There have been ideas and emotions that these songs helped me categorical, tackle and make sense of.”
Reflecting on the album’s title, he stated ‘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 of extra. In a world that has by no means felt so scary and polarised, I simply hope this album connects with folks.”
The album’s lead single ‘I Don’t Wanna’ is a mild, minimalistic affair centered round an acoustic guitar and afterward, some synths. “Speak in confidence to me / I’ll put down everybody / I’ll put down the whole lot / If loving that is incorrect then I don’t wanna be proper,” he sings.
Test it out beneath:
The tracklist for ‘Lunga’ is:
1. ‘Intro’
2. ‘For Your Hand’
3. ‘I Don’t Wanna’
4. ‘Lisboa’
5. ‘Lengthy Roads’
6. ‘Summer time Track’
7. ‘Rooster Wire’
8. ‘Hazel Eyes’
9. ‘Lunga (Interlude)’
10. ‘A Million Flowers’
11. ‘How It As soon as Was’
12. ‘New Day’
Sargeant can be a member of supergroup Demise Of Love alongside producer Daniel Avery and James Greenwood, aka Ghost Tradition, who just lately launched their self-titled debut EP.
Working Males’s Membership will probably be opening for LCD Soundsystem at two of their upcoming London reveals later this week.
‘Concern Concern’, the follow-up to the band’s self-titled debut album, acquired 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 in recent times. Working Males’s Membership actually put on the trauma properly, however this riveting exploration actually thrives by in search of the sunshine past the gloom.”