Insecure Men - S/T - New Vinyl Lp 2018 Fat Possum Records Pressing with Download - Indie / Synth-Rock / Lounge

Things were looking rather grim for Saul Adamczewski at the dog-end of 2015. After his erratic behaviour and increasing drug dependence led to his unceremonious ejection from his band, Fat White Family, he languished in London, living on a friend’s floor and using crack and heroin heavily. Eventually, he checked into rehab. Upon leaving, all he was left with were the skewed pop songs he’d amassed for side project Insecure Men.

Now, the band’s self-titled debut – an engrossing, bleak and often warming set of exotica, vintage pop and childlike pizzazz – emerges as a document of recovery. Insecure Men’s journey began at the Queens Head, the south London pub the Fat Whites once squatted in. And with the band – which features a revolving seven to 11-piece line-up including the stabilising influence of Childhood’s Ben Romans-Hopcraft, Saul’s childhood friend – planning for a year on the road, a happy ending appears possible.