Album artwork for Working Men’s Club by Working Men's Club
Album artwork for Working Men’s Club by Working Men's Club

A rumble on the horizon. Gritted teeth, nuclear fizz and fissured rock. A dab of pill dust from a linty pocket before it hits: the atom split, pool table overturned, pint glass smashed — valley fever breaking with the clouds as the inertia of small town life is well and truly disrupted. Here to bust out of Doledrum, clad in a t-shirt that screams Socialism and armed with drum machine, synth, pedal and icy stare are Working Men’s Club, and their self-titled debut album.

Their eponymous collection of songs is equal parts Calder Valley restlessness and raw Sheffield steel; guitars locking horns with floor-filling beats, synths masquerading as drums and Minsky-Sargeant’s scratchy, electrifying bedroom demos brought to their full potential by Orton’s blade-sharp yet sensitive production.

Standouts include the nonchalant existential groove John Cooper Clarke — centred around the realisation that yes, even the luckiest guy alive, the Bard of Salford himself, will someday die. The washily-vocalled, Orange Juicily-guitared White Rooms and People, Cook A Coffee which is like a lost Joy Division number from an alternate universe and the frenetic, pew-pewing A.A.A.A.

Working Men's Club

Working Men’s Club

Heavenly Recordings
Album artwork for Working Men’s Club by Working Men's Club
Tape

£11.99

Clear Shell and Neon Yellow Slip-Case

Released 02/10/2020Catalogue Number

HVNLP179MC

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Album artwork for Working Men’s Club by Working Men's Club
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Printed Inner Sleeve.

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Album artwork for Working Men’s Club by Working Men's Club
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Working Men's Club

Working Men’s Club

Heavenly Recordings
Album artwork for Working Men’s Club by Working Men's Club
Tape

£11.99

Clear Shell and Neon Yellow Slip-Case

Released 02/10/2020Catalogue Number

HVNLP179MC

Learn more
Album artwork for Working Men’s Club by Working Men's Club
LP

£27.99

Printed Inner Sleeve.

Black
Released 30/10/2020Catalogue Number

HVNLP179

Learn more
Album artwork for Working Men’s Club by Working Men's Club
CD

£5.99

Released 02/10/2020Catalogue Number

HVNLP179CD

Learn more

A rumble on the horizon. Gritted teeth, nuclear fizz and fissured rock. A dab of pill dust from a linty pocket before it hits: the atom split, pool table overturned, pint glass smashed — valley fever breaking with the clouds as the inertia of small town life is well and truly disrupted. Here to bust out of Doledrum, clad in a t-shirt that screams Socialism and armed with drum machine, synth, pedal and icy stare are Working Men’s Club, and their self-titled debut album.

Their eponymous collection of songs is equal parts Calder Valley restlessness and raw Sheffield steel; guitars locking horns with floor-filling beats, synths masquerading as drums and Minsky-Sargeant’s scratchy, electrifying bedroom demos brought to their full potential by Orton’s blade-sharp yet sensitive production.

Standouts include the nonchalant existential groove John Cooper Clarke — centred around the realisation that yes, even the luckiest guy alive, the Bard of Salford himself, will someday die. The washily-vocalled, Orange Juicily-guitared White Rooms and People, Cook A Coffee which is like a lost Joy Division number from an alternate universe and the frenetic, pew-pewing A.A.A.A.