Working Men's Holiday

Summer Song by Sydney Minsky Sargeant was released on Monday and feels even more apt, given that the UK soared into the 30s on Tuesday. 

It was a few degrees higher than that the external high in the small bos room office with poor ventilation that I spent several hours in, going from one Teams meeting to another. 

Most of us switched cameras off halfway through, partly due to crappy audio and lag, though I was somewhat relieved not to be distracted by the sight of my own physical deterioration as the intense heat increased.

Thankfully, Sydney has chosen not to write a song extolling the virtues of good hydration and keeping cool, and instead delivers an effortlessly cool, trippy pop song with spiralling acoustics and a vocal delivery so relaxed that it could almost be horizontal.

Nagging familiar, yet absolutely in the now, this one's a keeper. 

Summer Song is the only preview that I've heard so far from Sydney's upcoming solo album Lunga (available on double vinyl, CD and digital, kids), but I'm a fan of Working Men's Club and a fan of Summer Song, so I will be checking it out.

More Busman's Holiday than Working Men's Holiday? Perhaps, but I'm not complaining!