Shame have introduced a brand new album. Cutthroat, which was produced by John Congleton, arrives September 5 by way of 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 driving a bike in a wall of dying stunt at a carnival, dancing in gold lamé shorts, and extra. Test it out beneath.
Steen, in a press launch, cited Oscar Wilde as an affect on the brand new music. “I used to be studying quite a lot of Oscar Wilde performs the place every little thing was about paradox,” he stated. “In ‘Cutthroat,’ it’s that complete concept from Girl Windermere’s Fan, ‘Life’s far too necessary to be taken significantly.’”
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 stated. “Our reside reveals aren’t efficiency artwork—they’re direct, confrontational, and uncooked. That’s all the time been the foundation of us. We reside in loopy occasions. But it surely’s not about ‘Poor me.’ It’s about ‘Fuck you.’” He added: “It’s concerning the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites. Let’s face it, there’s quite a lot 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 Occasion
10 Screwdriver
11 Packshot
12 Axis of Evil
