Name: Drunk Tank Pink
Brand: Shame

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DOC204CD

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-03-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

656605150420

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

DOC204CASS

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Tape

2021-04-30

656605375892

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1 / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / Tape

DOC204dlx-C1

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silver

Opaque Silver Countertop

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Extended format: Yes

2022-02-11

617308017755

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / silver

Artist

Shame

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Dead Oceans

Albums of the Year 2021

Albums of the Year So Far 2021

There are moments on Drunk Tank Pink where you almost have to reach for the sleeve to check this is the same band who made 2018’s Songs Of Praise. Such is the jump Shame have made from the riotous post-punk of their debut to the sprawling adventurism and twitching anxieties laid out here. The South Londoner’s blood and guts spirit, that wink and grin of devious charm, is still present, it’s just that it’s grown into something bigger, something deeper, more ambitious and unflinchingly honest.

The genius of Drunk Tank Pink is how these lyrical themes dovetail with the music. Opener Alphabet dissects the premise of performance over a siren call of nervous, jerking guitars, its chorus thrown out like a beer bottle across a mosh pit. Songs spin off and lurch into unexpected directions throughout here, be it March Day’s escalating aural panic attack or the shapeshifting darkness of Snow Day. There’s a Berlin era Bowie beauty to the lovelorn Human For A Minute while closer Station Wagon weaves from a downbeat mooch into a souring, soul- lifting climax in which Steen elevates himself beyond the clouds and into the heavens. Or at least that’s what it sounds like.

From the womb to the clouds (sort of), Shame are currently very much in the pink.

Drunk Tank Pink

Music US