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While Shame's second album didn’t have the same impact as Songs Of Praise, given the chance to breathe live the songs sound huge.

Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 03.11 EST The annals of rock history are packed with songs bemoaning the lot of the artist on tour. You can understand the urge to write them – they proliferate on second albums, when artists who have done almost nothing except tour since their debut search for inspiration – but, nevertheless, attempting to elicit sympathy for a rock band among people who do a proper job for a living always seems dementedly optimistic. Under the circumstances, you have to take your hat off to London quintet Shame: whatever you make of their second album, they’ve...

This is a gentler, more introspective Shame - gone are the raucous frustrations of ‘Songs Of Praise’, leading way for a pensive, delicate new wave of punk. ‘Drunk Tank Pink’ is a surreal landscape of desperation, frustration, and consideration, and a confident second record from the South Londoners. Although a portion of the record has a gentle tone, ‘Water In The Well’ is perhaps the key exception to the rule, with its heavy, brooding guitars and frontman Charlie Steen’s almost despairing howls - there is a frenetic energy here, juxtaposing the themes of l...