Working Men’s Club playing YES in Manchester (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
They’re of course in remote settings these days, but two of 2020’s brightest new talents were the live guests of Later…With Jools Holland last weekend – check out performances from Working Men’s Club and Greentea Peng below.
Greentea Peng aired her summer single Hu Man not long after debuting its follow-up Revolution, while Working Men’s Club brought out Valleys, one of the major singles from their recently released self-titled debut album;
“There’s also a deadly, playful air of provocation: Cook A Coffee is aimed squarely at the UK’s brillo haired, establishment shill Andrew Neil, while the wickedly abrasive Teeth carries the line, ‘Everything‘s a myth / don’t know what to believe’, acknowledging that there’s nothing and no-one deserving of trust whether you come from town or city,” our review reads.
“The climax takes the simplest way out of this need to wear the world on your shoulders but not be made to deal with its flaws one by one: Angel rolls on for over twelve minutes, reaching successively greater, shoegazey peaks, corkscrewing towards nowhere like a psychedelically guided rite of passage.”