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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.

Album reviews: Shame return with Drunk Tank Pink, and Zayn Malik releases his third solo record Shame sound like they've been wrestling with excess, while the former One Direction singer unfurls a gothic melodrama  Shame, and Zayn. Ed Power Shame: Drunk Tank Pink.  Shame’s first album was a frantic assault that saw the group heralded one of the saviours of British indie music. But the success of that record exacted a heavy toll. Their pummelling and fraught second LP is the sound of a band reckoning with excess, burnout and a loss of identity.   It’s hugely affecting, singer Charli...

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“This is gonna be another great year,” Shame’s Charlie Steen thought to himself at the end of January 2020, as he left the legendary La Frette Studios on the outskirts of Paris, the band’s second album ‘Drunk Tank Pink’ done and dusted. Three weeks earlier, the south London five-piece had been in Chicago playing a New Year’s Eve show with the city’s indie rockers Twin Peaks, when they got the call that famed Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford, who defined a specific era of British guitar music in the early 2000s, had a last-minute cancellation at La Fre...

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...