Shame

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Shame are an English post-punk band originally from South London, England. Their debut album Songs of Praise was released on 12 January 2018. This was followed by Drunk Tank Pink on 15 January 2021. The group has received critical acclaim from publications including NME, Paste, and Clash.
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Shame are an English post-punk band originally from South London, England. Their debut album Songs of Praise was released on 12 January 2018. This was followed by Drunk Tank Pink on 15 January 2021. The group has received critical acclaim from publications including NME, Paste, and Clash.
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Shame (stylized as shame) are an English post-punk band originally from South London, England. Their debut album Songs of Praise was released on 12 January 2018. This was followed by Drunk Tank Pink on 15 January 2021. The group has received critical acclaim from publications including NME, Paste, and Clash.
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There are moments on 'Drunk Tank Pink' where you almost have to reach for the sleeve to check this is the same band who made 2018's 'Songs of Praise'. Such is the jump Shame have made from the riotous post-punk of their debut to the sprawling adventurism and twitching anxieties laid out here. The genius of the album is how these lyrical themes dovetail with the music. Opener 'Alphabet' dissects the premise of performance over a siren call of nervous, jerking guitars, its chorus thrown out like a beer bottle across a mosh pit.
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There are moments on 'Drunk Tank Pink' where you almost have to reach for the sleeve to check this is the same band who made 2018's 'Songs of Praise'. Such is the jump Shame have made from the riotous post-punk of their debut to the sprawling adventurism and twitching anxieties laid out here. The genius of the album is how these lyrical themes dovetail with the music. Opener 'Alphabet' dissects the premise of performance over a siren call of nervous, jerking guitars, its chorus thrown out like a beer bottle across a mosh pit.
Plot
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control…