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Today we’re listening to “John Cooper Clarke” by Working Men’s Club
About a month ago, as part of my 100 new (to me) record review project, I checked out the self-titled debut of Working Men’s Club.
Describing the record, I wrote:
Working Men's Club's debut record almost feels like Minsky-Sargeant was completing a school project. The assignment; go into your parent's or older sibling's record collection, pull out the New Order, Fall, and Kraftwerk records, and combine them into something new.
“John Cooper Clarke” definitely sounds like Movement-era New Order. Long-time readers will know that’s high praise coming from me. It has a guitar riff that sounds not unlike what they came up with for Age of Consent, but with a beat that sounds like Confusion.
The sound is also reminiscent of another Factory Records band, Section 25.
It’s the sort of song that sounds best in a club when “late night” means things are just getting started, the bass is concussive, and where the beat is much more important than whatever the lyrics say.
More:
Cycling through the conflicting emotions that come from living in a society that’s set itself on fire, ‘Working Men’s Club’ is an attention-demanding debut that couldn’t have come at a better time. Hope, despair, destruction and the desire for new beginnings, their chaotic energy makes perfect sense in these strange times.
Read NME’s full review of the record here.
Listen
“John Cooper Clarke” by Working Men’s Club| self-titled, 2020
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Kevin—
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All the 80s vibes today, and I am loving it!