Shame

What if the antihero in your favorite film or book had no chance to repent, reconcile, or redeem himself? There's no victim to rescue. There's no evil to thwart. There's no tyranny to turnover. Instead of saving the day against his better judgment, he just walks a Sisyphean circle of existential malaise doomed to repeat yesterday's vices without the promise of a better tomorrow. Rather than tell this story on the screen or on the page, Uniform tell it on their fourth full-length album, Shame. The trio - Michael Berdan (vocals), Ben Greenberg (guitar, production), and Mike Sharp (drums) - strain struggle through an industrialized mill of grating guitars, warped electronics, war-torn percussion, and demonically catchy vocalizations. 'Thematically, the album is like a classic hard-boiled paperback novel without a case,' says Berdan. 'It focuses on the static state of an antihero as he mulls over his life in the interim between major events, just existing in the world. At the time we were making the record, I was reading books by Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, and Dashiell Hammet and strangely found myself identifying with the internal dialogues of characters like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.' The lead-up to this moment proved just as intriguing as any of those characters' exploits. Born in 2013, Uniform bulldozed a path to the forefront of underground music. Following Perfect World (2015) and Wake in Fright (2017), the group's third offering, The Long Walk (2018), represented

Tracks

1~1~Delco
1~2~The Shadow Of God's Hand
1~3~Life In Remission
1~4~Shame
1~5~All We've Ever Wanted
1~6~Dispatches From The Gutter
1~7~This Won't End Well
1~8~I Am The Cancer

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Uniform
Release Date: 11 September 2020
Genre: Alternative
Label: SACRED BONES
Distributor: Rocket Group