“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 in and takes over the room.
This isn’t nostalgia, it’s not a band trying to recreate Manchester’s past. Instead they’re taking those post-punk instincts, mixing them with something altogether more modern and direct, and making music that actually means something. The rhythm section here is genuinely hypnotic, the kind of locked-in groove that makes you move without thinking about it.
Lyrically is is about living in a city that can feel chaotic and overwhelming, about nights that blur and days that demand too much. “People Like Us” sits perfectly in that space, feeling intimate even as it’s clearly built for rooms full of people moving in unison. There’s something in that balance that suggests Concrete Club have figured out something important about what people actually need from music right now.
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