🤠 Concrete & Country: A Forklift Yacht Club Dance Floor After Dark

🤠 Concrete & Country: A Forklift Yacht Club Dance Floor After Dark

Some nights call for a little country music.

Some nights call for a dance floor.

And some nights, apparently, call for both on a concrete warehouse floor.

Forklift Yacht Club's latest album, Concrete & Country, takes a different turn from the usual FYC madness. This time, we're stepping away from the usual characters and putting the focus on something a little more universal:

Good music, good friends, dancing, and getting through the workweek.

Well... mostly.

🎸 Five Songs. Two Dance Callers. One Increasingly Questionable Dance Floor.

The album starts out pretty normally with “Friday Night Feels.”

It's a straight-up modern country dance song about getting off work, meeting up with friends, finding somebody to dance with, and forgetting about tomorrow for a while.

Leading the dance is Two-Step Caution, our calm and collected caller. He knows the steps, keeps things moving, and seems to have everything under control.

Then comes “Shiftin’ Gears & Shufflin’ Boots.”

That's when things start getting a little more... FYC.

The cowboy hats come out. The denim and flannel come on. And suddenly the warehouse starts sounding suspiciously like a country dance hall.

Two-Step Caution keeps things reasonable.

Unfortunately, someone else has an idea.

🏁 Enter Checkered Flag

Checkered Flag doesn't exactly see the warehouse the same way everybody else does.

To him, pallets are practically dance partners.

Freight is choreography.

And apparently, “double stack” is a perfectly reasonable dance instruction.

By the time “Storeroom Shuffle” rolls around, everybody has somehow ended up dancing between the shelves.

Two-Step Caution does his best to keep things civilized:

Step left.

Step right.

Turn your partner.

Watch the corner.

Everything is going fine.

Probably.

😂 Then Checkered Flag Gets Another Turn

Song four is where Checkered Flag decides that the dance floor needs a little more energy.

A lot more energy.

“Move That Load!” picks up the pace and turns the whole dance into a freight-moving hoedown.

Pallets get stacked.

Stacks get broken.

Operators switch.

Loads get sent down the line.

And Checkered Flag gets progressively more excited about every single one of these things.

He's not angry.

He's not working anybody harder.

He's just having way too much fun.

Eventually, even he runs out of steam.

And that's when Two-Step Caution finally steps back in.

🌙 Time to Slow It Down

After four songs of country dancing, warehouse shuffling, and whatever Checkered Flag thought he was organizing, the album finally settles down with “After the Last Dance.”

The lights get low.

The tempo drops.

The crowd stops shuffling.

And for a few minutes, there's nothing left to organize.

Just two people dancing together.

Because underneath all the warehouse jokes, cowboy hats, pallets, and concrete floors, Concrete & Country is really about the same thing as any good dance-night album:

You work hard all week.

When the weekend comes, enjoy it.

And if you happen to turn the warehouse into a dance hall along the way...

Well, just watch the corners.

🏁🤠🎸

Concrete & Country — Forklift Yacht Club

Five songs.

Two callers.

One dance floor.

Cowboy hats required.

Cowboy boots required.

Hard hats? Leave 'em at the door. 🏁🤠