Shame have introduced a brand new album. Cutthroat, which was produced by John Congleton, arrives September 5 through Dead Oceans. The English post-punk group has additionally shared the album’s lead single, “Cutthroat,” alongside a video, directed by Ja Humby, that options lead singer Charlie Steen using a motorbike in a wall of loss of life stunt at a carnival, dancing in gold lamé shorts, and extra. Test it out under.
Steen, in a press launch, cited Oscar Wilde as an affect on the brand new music. “I used to be studying a variety of Oscar Wilde performs the place all the things was about paradox,” he mentioned. “In ‘Cutthroat,’ it’s that complete thought from Woman Windermere’s Fan, ‘Life’s far too vital to be taken severely.’”
Cutthroat is the follow-up to 2023’s Food for Worms. Disgrace—that includes vocalist Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Inexperienced, bassist Josh Finerty, and drummer Charlie Forbes—recorded the brand new album, which they describe as “a joyride,” at Salvation Studios in Brighton, England.
“That is about who we’re,” Steen mentioned. “Our reside exhibits aren’t efficiency artwork—they’re direct, confrontational, and uncooked. That’s at all times been the basis of us. We reside in loopy instances. Nevertheless it’s not about ‘Poor me.’ It’s about ‘Fuck you.’” He added: “It’s in regards to the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites. Let’s face it, there’s a variety of them round proper now.”
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Cutthroat:
01 Cutthroat
02 Cowards Round
03 Quiet Life
04 Nothing Higher
05 Plaster
06 Spartak
07 To and Fro
08 Lampião
09 After Social gathering
10 Screwdriver
11 Packshot
12 Axis of Evil
