Concrete Club – “People Like Us”: Manchester chaos, funk guitars, and Rowetta taking over the room

Concrete Club

“People Like Us” clicks straight away. Concrete Club have created something properly propulsive here, the kind of track that makes you understand why they’ve spent the last couple of years becoming essential listening in Manchester. Right from the jump, that funky guitar cuts through like someone’s just switched the lights on at a party that’s been running since 3am. It’s got this restless energy that refuses to settle, and then Rowetta arrives and the whole thing shifts into another gear entirely. Her voice doesn’t politely join the conversation, it walks…