Shame

South London's brash post-punk outfit Shame follows in the footsteps of unflinching musicians and writers such as the Fall, Television Personalities, and Irvine Welsh. On their bracing 2018 debut album Songs of Praise -- which they recorded when they were barely in their twenties -- and 2021's frenetic Drunk Tank Pink, they bridged the personal and political with wit and fury. Vocalist Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green, bassist Josh Finerty, and drummer Charlie Forbes. The quintet met in school and formed Shame in 2014 while still in their teens. A fa...