Shame

'Cutthroat' is shame at their blistering best. An unapologetic new album with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton at the helm, it’s souped up and supercharged. It’s exactly where you want shame to be.

Still in their twenties, the five childhood friends - Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green, bassist Josh Finerty and drummer Charlie Forbes - have grown shame exponentially, with ambitious sonic ideas and the technical chops to execute them.

Stamped throughout with shame’s trademark sense of humor, the album takes on the big issues of today and gleefully toys with them. With Trump in the Whitehouse and shame holed up in Salvation Studios in Brighton, they cast a merciless eye on themes of conflict and corruption; hunger and desire; lust, envy and the omnipresent shadow of cowardice. Musically, too, the record plays with visceral new ideas.

The result is an album that revels in the idiosyncrasies of life, raising an eyebrow and asking the ugly questions that so often get tactfully brushed over. But the one answer that 'Cutthroat' gives with a resounding flourish is that, right now, shame have never sounded better.