Shame are a British post-punk band originally from South London. Their debut album Songs of Praise was released on 12 January 2018. The group has received critical acclaim from publications including NME, Paste, and Clash.
Shame released their debut album Songs of Praise on 12 January 2018 through Dead Oceans and was met with critical acclaim. The record currently holds an aggregated score of 85 based on 16 reviews. The album peaked at number 32 on the UK Albums Chart and remained on the chart for two weeks
Shame’s young singer, Charlie Steen, has expressed his contempt for the idea of the rock star, that tarnished idol of a bygone age. You wouldn’t have inferred any such disdain from his magnetic performance fronting these five bright hopes from London at their biggest show yet. Taking to the stage in a white jumpsuit, cowboy hat and shades — the entire band backlit through teeming dry ice to make them look like either Spaghetti Western anti-heroes, or a 1980s goth group — he projected himself like someone for whom the Electric Ballroom is already too small a setting. Within a few songs he was stripped to the waist, glistening with sweat, the mic stand held across his shoulders as he surveyed the heaving mass in front of him.
Shame’s debut album, Songs of Praise, was good, but represented only a fraction of the power they bring to bear live: it sounds like a fast car being used for the supermarket run, in comparison to the full-throttle roar of their show. What’s compelling about them is that they bring the force and power of the loudest, most aggressive of post-punk bands, but the guitar lines display an ear for an indelible melody: they’ve located a midpoint between Killing Joke and Echo and the Bunnymen. The interplay of the guitars on “Friction” was exhilarating, while “Gold Hole” soared from its churning verses into a skyscraping chorus that felt like a football being kicked into one’s chest. Visually, too, they were fabulous: as well as Steen, bassist Josh Finnerty treated the stage like a personal gym, bounding around constantly, pausing only to bellow his backing vocals.
The only obstacles in their way are the ones they erect themselves. Will Steen at present doesn’t bother with too much in the way of a tune, it not really being necessary. Will Shame decide that being DIY is all well and good, but maybe it might be nice to have the backing to take their excoriation presence to arenas.
There is no schedule or ticket right now.
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