Name: Insecure Men
Brand: Insecure Men

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FP16473

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Green

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

767981164731

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Green LP

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2018-02-23

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Insecure Men

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Fat Possum

Fat Possum Records is a label that was established in 1991 with the sole purpose of recording R.L. Burnside. Over time, it evolved into a mission to discover and record the last remaining original bluesmen before they passed away. Despite facing various challenges such as difficult personalities, limited songs, and a raw sound that didn't fit the mainstream blues market, these artists possessed immense talent and truly lived the blues.

In recent years, Fat Possum has expanded its catalog to include newer indie blues rock bands alongside their traditional offerings.

The band Insecure Men originally formed in 2015 in the cramped confines of The Queens Head pub, Stockwell. With so many hard living musicians all crammed into one room and other tenants in the same building, it soon became clear they had to make music that wasn’t “just noise”. Saul started writing quieter, more reflective songs. Despite their shared origins with Fat White Family, Saul felt that his work with Insecure Men couldn’t be expressed via Fat White Family. The group started as Saul, Nathan Saoudi (FWF’s suave organist) and Ben (of the group Childhood). This is just as well because Insecure Men is more than just a band for Saul – it’s a project for sobriety.
Saul explains that he has been round Ben his whole life: “I was always trying to corrupt Ben and his twin brother, to try and get them to bunk off primary school in Herne Hill but they never would.” And he remains incorruptible to this day: “Ben is very centred, calm, rational and nice – which is what makes our relationship work because he’s everything I’m lacking.”
Now that Saul has made serious efforts to deal with his long-standing drug problems, Insecure Men is the project that he throws most of his extra energy into. It's a testament to his journey towards sobriety.

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The debut album from Insecure Men (Saul Adamczewski - ex Fat White Family and Ben Romans-Hopcraft - Childhood) is an understated gem of an album that's part Joe Meek, part Television Personalities and part exotica. In many ways Insecure Men - the band led by the fiercely talented songwriter and musician Saul Adamczewski and his schoolmate and stabilising influence, Ben Romans-Hopcraft - are the polar opposite of the Fat White Family. Whereas sleaze-mired, country-influenced, drug-crazed garage punks the Fat Whites are a “celebration of everything that is wrong in life”, Insecure Men, who blend together exotica, easy listening, lounge and timeless pop music, are, by comparison at least, the last word in wholesomeness. The band originally formed in 2015 in the cramped confines of The Queens Head pub, Stockwell, in the Fat White Family’s notorious South London ‘practice space’. Saul recorded all of the songs he wrote at The Queens Head onto tape at Sean Lennon’s studio in upstate New York. This tape, recorded on his own in a corridor onto an ancient Tascam while in a foul mood with his mates, essentially became Insecure Men’s self-titled debut album as more layers were dubbed over the top until nothing of the original demos remained. Saul lists some of the influences on their sound, mentioning the exotica of Arthur Lyman, the early electronic pop of Perrey and Kingsley, the supreme smoothness of The Carpenters, the songwriting chops of Harry Nilsson and the hypnagogic uncanniness conjured up by David Lynch, describing what they do as “pretty music with a dark underbelly to it”.

LP+ - Limited Cherry Cola Vinyl with Download.

LP++ - Limited Repress on Yellow Vinyl with Download. 300 Copies Only.

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