Shame

Following in the unflinching footsteps of musicians and writers such as the Fall, Television Personalities, and Irvine Welsh, Shame combine keen-eyed observations with a willingness to challenge themselves and their audience. Among the first in the wave of U.K. bands reinterpreting post-punk for the late 2010s and early 2020s, the South London band's bracing 2018 debut album, Songs of Praise -- which they recorded when they were barely in their twenties -- bridged the personal and political with wit and fury. Shame broadened their horizons with 2021's Drunk Tank Pink, which ex...