![]() It’s not quite as gut-wrenchingly novel as the aforementioned track from the first album, but you do not get to eternally relive the first moment in your life you ever heard a song, despite what Instagram will deceive you into believing. The Lick-level Shame is present on this album: Snow Day is proof, and it is a magnificent track, with lyrical dexterity that gives way to a band maturing in promise. What do I mean by that? Presuming I know what the band feel without knowing them, this album reeks of optimism, but this is still Shame. With follow-up record, Drunk Tank Pink, however, Shame have somewhat changed their tune. “And I hope that you’re hearing me, and I hope that you’re hearing me…” So, in an entirely unoriginal world, Songs of Praise cut right through, straight into Cuzomano vibes territory: this is where I chill this is who I am. Was it derivative of past genres? Sure, but I’m Borgesian: o riginality is dead, dude. There was just something so real to Concrete that wasn’t present in anything else I heard that year. ![]() Shame’s first album, Songs of Praise, did that, and it became a true, personal favourite that year as a result (see my 2018 contenders, pedants and doubters). I love music that grabs me by the shirt and, wrestling with its own emotional decompression, screams misanthropic poetry directly at my face. However, in 2018, this very website - and the way that is Snobbery - was only just getting started, so Shame and this scene went unremarked upon. An album that, in hindsight, tellingly foreshadowed the arrival of black midi, Black Country, New Road, and the formation of a “scene”. Their first album, 2018’s Songs of Praise, was a wonderfully biting, grating and soul-beating musical journey I had not been on in some years. Post-Punk (as the catch-all genre du jour), and Shame spin neatly into this thread. This is what we have been waiting for… or, at least, it’s something like it.
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