Summer Song came out three days ago, a third single from Sydney Minski Sargeant's forthcoming solo album Lunga (out in September). Summer Song is a real treat, a slowly trippy, woozy, light headed song that sounds like it was written lying down in long grass in August staring at the brilliant blue sky. There are echoes of Syd Barrett and 80s 4AD band Ultra Vivid Scene (both good things), a late 60s/ late 80s interface, but also very much Syd's own work.
Four weeks before Summer Song Sydney released Long Roads, finger picked guitar calling Nick Drake to mind, another song infused with heat of summer longing and end times melancholy. Syd is only 23 years old.
Both songs are a far cry from his other bands and work. Syd's main band is Working Men's Club who spent part of the summer supporting LCD Soundsystem in Brixton after a full tilt, packed out warm up gig at The Golden Lion. Syd's also a third of Demise Of Love (with Daniel Avery and Ghost Culture) who put out a four song EP in May, industrial techno and 80s alt- pop spliced together.
WMC have a very different vibe, Syd's alienated vocals running with industrial synths, New Order in the 80s sounds and thudding machine drums. Teeth was a 2019 single- the Anthony Naples remix adds some dancefloor euphoria. Ploys was from their second album Fear fear, out in 2022 and very much a response to Covid and lockdown. Erol Alkan pumps it up, synth squiggles and jack hammer kick drum, and Syd singing 'being sad makes me happy... when we talk of the times/ We talk in the past tense'
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