Working Men’s Club’s Sydney Minsky Sargeant has announced his debut solo album Lunga will drop on September 12th via Domino Records.
The 12 songs that mark Lunga were written over a period of years, beginning when Minsky Sargeant (who usually goes by Syd) was a teenager growing up in Todmorden and following a chronology to the present day. Syd co-produced Lunga alongside long-time collaborator Alex Greaves (who had encouraged him to put the solo songs he was writing down in the studio), Minsky Sargeant also plays most of the instruments on the record.

Ahead of the release of Lunga, Minsky Sargeant shares the first single from Lunga, “I Don’t Wanna.” Talking about the album and “I Don’t Wanna,” Minsky Sargeant says: “I’m trying to wear my heart-on-my-sleeve a bit more, these songs come from a search for meaning and understanding. 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.”

Last week, Minsky Sargeant also revealed “Intro”– the opening track and tone setter of Lunga – as well as a session track of “For Your Hand” – recorded at The Nave Studios in Leeds, where the album was also recorded.

Syd is a self-made force of nature whose dynamic, shock-laden live performances have seen him grace Glastonbury stages, tour the UK and Europe, appear on Later with Jools Holland. LCD Soundsystem picked Working Men’s Club to support them at 4 of their 8 dates as part of their Brixton Academy residency that kicks off this week in London.

Syd remarks that a Lunga for him, and to a greater extent the album itself, “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 polarized, I just hope this album connects with people.”

Sydney Minsky Sargeant
Lunga
Domimo Records

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

Pre-order Lunga HERE