Working Men’s Club’s Sydney Minsky Sargeant announces debut solo album ‘Lunga’ and shares minimalistic single ‘I Don’t Wanna’

Working Men’s Club’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 be released on September 12 via Domino and is available to pre-order here.

Per a press release, ‘Lunga’ is billed as “a beautiful side-step from the music that Sydney Minsky Sargeant has been recording as Working Men’s Club for the past seven years”. Its songs were written over a period of several years, some dating back to when Sargeant was a teenager growing up in Todmorden.

“I’m trying to wear my heart-on-my-sleeve a bit more, these songs come from a search for meaning and understanding,” said Sargeant. “I’m always trying to unpick myself and those around me, the ones I love and loved the most. There were thoughts and feelings that these songs helped me express, address and make sense of.”

Reflecting on the album’s title, he said ‘Lunga’ “is another way of saying we are all one and the same deep down and that we should try to remember that a little more. In a world that has never felt so scary and polarised, I just hope this album connects with people.”

The album’s lead single ‘I Don’t Wanna’ is a gentle, minimalistic affair centered around an acoustic guitar and later on, some synths. “Confide in me / I’ll put down everyone / I’ll put down everything / If loving this is wrong then I don’t wanna be right,” he sings.

Check it out below:

The tracklist for ‘Lunga’ is:

1. ‘Intro’
2. ‘For Your Hand’
3. ‘I Don’t Wanna’
4. ‘Lisboa’
5. ‘Long Roads’
6. ‘Summer Song’
7. ‘Chicken Wire’
8. ‘Hazel Eyes’
9. ‘Lunga (Interlude)’
10. ‘A Million Flowers’
11. ‘How It Once Was’
12. ‘New Day’

Sargeant is also a member of supergroup Demise Of Love alongside producer Daniel Avery and James Greenwood, aka Ghost Culture, who recently released their self-titled debut EP.

Working Men’s Club will be opening for LCD Soundsystem at two of their upcoming London shows later this week.

‘Fear Fear’, the follow-up to the band’s self-titled debut album, received four stars from NME in 2022, who noted: “Sure, it’s a dizzying landscape, but the chaotic palette does justice to the devastation and confusion faced in recent years. Working Men’s Club certainly wear the trauma well, but this riveting exploration truly thrives by seeking the light beyond the gloom.”