Drunk Tank Pink

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AlbumJan 15 / 202122 songs, 1h 20m 34s
Post-Punk Art Punk
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7.6 / 10

The London post-punk band’s second album is bigger, louder, and more textured as frontman Charlie Steen anxiously details the strange gap between youth and adulthood.

6 / 10

The south Londoners' second album sees Shame shore up their place at the forerfront of exciting British music

8 / 10

Shame push their post punk beginnings to raging new heights on Drunk Tank Pink

The south London band’s second album is the sound of men who aren’t allowed to be loud and shirtless in public any more

7.8 / 10

Shame return darker and more agitated on 'Drunk Tank Pink,' surveying the wreckage of an entire generation.

Beefier, more confrontational, more dissonant than before.

Recorded in France with Arctic Monkeys’ producer James Ford, the Brixton quartet’s new record is funkier and squawkier than their debut

The second album from the south-london lads expands the possibilities of what they can say and how they can sound. Read the 'Drunk Tank Pink' review.

Shame already displayed plenty of ambition and a penchant for drama on Songs of Praise, but they're twice as potent on Drunk Tank Pink.

7 / 10

In the world of Shame's Drunk Tank Pink, perception is everything. Opener "Alphabet" kicks off with rattling snare and lurching rhythms f...

Shame released their debut album Songs of Praise in a vastly different world to the one we know now, and not in the most obvious way you’d think.

7.0 / 10

A natural impulse for rock bands coming off their debut is to go bigger on the second album.

8 / 10

This is a gentler, more introspective Shame - gone are the raucous frustrations of ‘Songs Of Praise’, leading way for a pensive, delicate new

7 / 10

South London group Shame have matured since their debut album, but their sound on follow-up Drunk Tank Pink has lost none of its edge

8 / 10

9.0 / 10

Drunk Tank Pink by Shame album review by Adam Williams. The UK band's forthcoming release comes out on January 15, via Dead Oceans

The London band went from playing a 350-show stretch to nothing at all – and while tunes are lacking, their subsequent dislocation makes for some thrilling music

Album Reviews: Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

70 %

An obvious recalibration in their second album won’t do the band a bit of harm

8 / 10