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It’s always like this with albums recorded live: at best, you can hear and feel the energy that comes from the band playing together in a room – but at worst, it can become a chaotic, flawed affair. The new, third album by the London band Shame is definitely chaotic, but in a positive way. The opener “Fingers Of Steel” shows this perfectly: guitars pile up, stumble over each other, a piano riff emerges from this and Charlie Steen sings with a voice between pub brawl and vulnerability. The latter is new to Shame, a band that has traditionally been synonymous with riotous, beer-fuelled sounds.
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FOOD FOR WORMS is about friendship, about the sometimes difficult closeness that develops between band members on tour. On the other hand, Shame have largely left the (post-)punk of the first two albums behind and swapped them for more melodic alternative rock: “Six Pack” is wah-wah-driven jam rock, “Adderall” is a ballad carried by the band’s choral interludes, and up The surprisingly smooth “Orchid” even reveals Steen’s inner crooner. It’s a cliché, but it seems like this focus on the essentials, on the five-friends-in-the-rehearsal-room feeling was exactly what Shame needed to find their own sound and identity.
Author: Elias Pietsch
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