The Henry Clay People
Working Part Time EP
JAXArt

The Henry Clay People have straightened out a lot since their wound-up beginnings on Birdman & (The) Squid, leaving behind some of the loopy twists of their early bar-bound sounds and replacing them with a more focused style written in part on the streets of Montreal for Blacklist the Kid with the Red Moustache and honed again for their new Working Part Time EP, released digitally with the full six songs and as a two-song 45. Though Working Part Time is just a piece of a more complete release scheduled somewhere in the months ahead, the EP works well for the band, forcing their Replacements rock into tighter confines. “Andy Sings!” benefits the most, with the purest chords and the strongest of their hard-ahead choruses. “Working Part Time” and “Somewhere on the Golden Coast” do so too, adding on more layers but less diversions to the band’s honed sound.
— Andrew Hammer