Description

Songs created in the shadow of terror and loss, but that crackle and pop with defiance, wrestled into being over one of the most extra-ordinary years in recent history. This is Fear Fear, a record made for agitating and dancing, for heart and soul, for here, now and tomorrow. The complete vision, that top-to-bottom rigour, is what makes the second album from Working Men s Club such a stunning and totally unique achievement. The title summarises a mood that s been around for 18 months – and, in fact, for a lot longer. There s a miserable kind of war that s going on. People are scared of things aside from coronavirus. It documents time during lockdown to an extent, but it isn t just about that, he explains. 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. Making the busy feel finessed and the dreadful feel magical – Fear Fear manages those feats, and then some. Or, as Syd Minksy-Sargeant puts it: We just set out to make the best-sounding album we could.

Label: Pias America