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It’s typical. You wait a lifetime for a year off – and then two come along at once. Or at least they did for Shame. The South London five-piece had flogged themselves half to death touring what felt like the whole world several times over in support of their debut album Songs of Praise. Interviews at the time – we’re thinking the last ever print edition of a formerly famous new music inky in particular – captured the band’s state of near collapse, frazzled beyond all existence. Come the start of 2019, they parted ways - not as a band but as individuals, to replenish themselves in ...

7.5/10 More than half of the citizens of this planet have non-linear lives at the moment, so putting musicians on a pedestal would be the worst kind of exceptionalism. But even with the radical changes and breaking up of many things we’d taken for granted, for London quintet Shame it’s highly likely their path into the twenties wouldn’t have been anything like orthodox anyway. Initially part of a grubby cabal once based around the Queen’s Head pub in Brixton (now gentrified), the then precocious teenagers were taken under the wing of various members of the Fat White Family, their ...

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...

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