jhulud Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 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 a critical high watermark. Pitchfork christened it “their most unified—and most deranged—record to date,” and The Line of Best Fit crowned them “vanguards within the genre.” In addition to touring with the likes of Deafheaven and Boris, they joined forces with The Body for a pair of collaborative albums – Mental Wounds Not Healing (2018) and Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back (2019) – as well as the live release, Live at the End of the World (2020). When it came time to pen Shame, Berdan made a conscious decision to include lyrics, marking a first. https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr258-uniform-shame DW exclusive limited to 200: https://deathwishinc.com/products/uniform-shame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 New song: "Delco" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunsetDramaKing17 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Hey all Hate to bump a thread again, but found this sitting among my records, unopened. I just never got into this record, and I have the DW version for anyone that wants it. Just want what I paid for it, message me of you're feelin it. radiatorhums and versusexcalibur 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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