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3 days ago
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shame Announce New Album Cutthroat, Release Title Track: Stream
The post shame Announce New Album Cutthroat, Release Title Track: Stream appeared first on Consequence. The UK post-punk band shame are back, and have announced their fourth studio album, Cutthroat. Listen to the lead single and opening track, 'Cutthroat,' below. Due on September 5th via Dead Oceans, Cutthroat is the follow up to shame's 2023 album Food for Worms, and spans 12 new songs produced by John Congleton. Speaking about the album in a statement, frontman Charlie Steen, said, 'It's about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites. Let's face it, there's a lot of them around right now.' Get shame Tickets Here The band expanded on that attitude in a longer joint statement, hinting at a restless drive beneath the record's surface. 'It's driven by hunger,' they said. 'Hunger for something better. For something you've been told you don't deserve. It's primal. It's raw. It's unapologetic. It's the person who turns up to the party uninvited. 'Cause when you've been pushed down, there's nowhere to go but up. When you ain't got nothing, you ain't got nothing to lose.' To that end, Steen likened the album to the band's live performances. 'This is about who we are,' he said. 'Our live shows aren't performance art — they're direct, confrontational and raw. That's always been the root of us. We live in crazy times. But it's not about 'Poor me.' It's about 'Fuck you.'' The lead single, 'Cutthroat,' is built around a driving arrangement with a psychedelic tint, and introduces the album's conflation of arrogance and insecurity. In a statement, Steen said, 'I was reading a lot of Oscar Wilde plays where everything was about paradox. In 'Cutthroat,' it's that whole idea from Lady Windermere's Fan, 'Life's far too important to be taken seriously.'' 'Cutthroat' arrives with a music video directed by Ja Humby. Watch it below. Along with the announcement of Cutthroat, shame also unveiled a run of UK and European tour dates, beginning in September and wrapping in November. According to a press release, 'US dates will soon follow, so stay tuned.' See the full list of their upcoming tour dates below, and grab tickets here. Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Cutthroat 02. Cowards Around 03. Quiet Life 04. Nothing Better 05. Plaster 06. Spartak 07. To and Fro 08. Lampião 09. After Party 10. Screwdriver 11. Packshot 12. Axis of Evil shame 2025 Tour Dates: 09/28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale 09/29 – Antwerp, BE @ TRIX 09/30 – Cologne, DE @ Gebäude 9 10/02 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg 10/03 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje 10/04 – Hamburg, DE @ Knust 10/06 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumphuset 10/07 – Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret AS 10/08 – Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan 10/10 – Helsinki, FI @ Korjaamo 10/11 – Tallinn, EE @ Paavli Kultuurivabrik 10/12 – Riga, LV @ Palladium 10/14 – Vilnius, LT @ Kultūra 10/15 – Warsaw, PL @ NIEBO 10/16 – Berlin, DE @ SO36 10/18 – Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory 10/19 – Bratislava Nova, SK @ Cvernovka 10/20 – Vienna, AT @ Chelsea 10/22 – Zagreb, HR @ Club Mochvara 10/23 – Belgrade, RS @ Zappa Baza 10/24 – Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5 10/26 – Istanbul, TR @ Blind 10/28 – Bucharest, RO @ Control 10/29 – Cluj, RO @ Atelier 10/30 – Budapest, HU @ A38 10/31 – Munich, DE @ Strom 11/02 – Zurich, CH @ Plaza 11/03 – Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali 11/05 – Lyon, FR @ L'Epicerie Moderne 11/06 – Reims, FR @ La Cartonnerie 11/07 – Lille, FR @ L'Aeronef 11/09 – Southampton, UK @ 1865 11/10 – Leeds, UK @ Project House 11/12 – Dublin, IE @ National Stadium 11/13 – Cork, IE @ Cypress Avenue 11/15 – Manchester, UK @ New Century 11/16 – Glasgow, UK @ The Garage 11/17 – Bristol, UK @ SWX 11/19 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk 11/20 – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town Popular Posts King of the Hill Revival Gets Hulu Release Date, New Opening Sequence Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence Are Now In-Laws Dave Mustaine: Metallica Stole "Enter Sandman" Riff from Another Band David Lynch's Personal Archive Going Up for Auction Man Wearing Nazi T-Shirt Gets a Beatdown from Fans at Punk Rock Bowling Fest Jonathan Joss, Voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, Shot and Killed by Neighbor Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
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3 days ago
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- Extra.ie
Shame announce new album Cutthroat and Irish dates
Shame have announced the release of their upcoming album Cutthroat, out September 5 via Dead Oceans. They also announced new tour dates, including shows in Dublin's National Stadium on November 12 and Cork's Cyprus Avenue on November 13. Cutthroat was created in collaboration with Grammy winning producer John Congleton. 'It's about the cowards, the c**ts, the hypocrites,' says vocalist Charlie Steen. 'Let's face it, there's a lot of them around right now.' To accompany the announcement, Shame released the new video for the album's title track, directed by Ja Humby. Commenting on the album, Steen continued: 'This is about who we are. Our live shows aren't performance art – they're direct, confrontational and raw. That's always been the root of us. We live in crazy times. But it's not about 'Poor me.' It's about 'F*ck you'.' On top of their newly announced Irish headline gig, Shame are set to play the opening slot for Wunderhorse's August 19 and 20 dates in Collins Barracks, Dublin. Tickets for Shame's Dublin and Cork dates go on sale this Friday, June 6, here. You can pre-order Cutthroat here. 1. 'Cutthroat'2. 'Cowards Around'3. 'Quiet Life'4. 'Nothing Better'5. 'Plaster'6. 'Spartak'7. 'To and Fro'8. 'Lampião'9. 'After Party'10. 'Screwdriver'11. 'Packshot' 12. 'Axis of Evil'
Gulf Today
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
McRae makes authentic folk-pop the internet can't resist
As the COVID-19 vaccine began distributing more widely in early 2021, California-raised singer-songwriter Jensen McRae affectionally joked in a tweet that Phoebe Bridgers would release a song in two years about 'hooking up in the car while waiting in line to get vaccinated at Dodger Stadium.' Bridgers didn't release the song, but McRae did. As the tweet took off, she threaded a video of herself singing 'a preemptive cover.' 'Immune,' penned by McRae in Bridgers' contemplative style, was released in full within two weeks. 'It was a perfect storm,' McRae, 27, said. 'I was parodying Phoebe Bridgers who was becoming world famous in that exact moment. ... I was also writing about this topic that everyone was thinking about constantly because we were in lockdowns.' Bridgers reposted the video, writing simply: 'oh my god.' The song preluded McRae's debut EP, released in 2021, and album, in 2022, which led to touring gigs with Muna and Noah Kahan. Last year, she signed with Dead Oceans, the same record label that represents Bridgers. McRae's sophomore album, the folk-pop 'I Don't Know How, But They Found Me!,' is out Friday. The title is a reference to 'Back to The Future,' her favourite movie. It's a line of dialogue said by scientist Doc Brown just before he falls in a hail of bullets, causing protagonist Marty McFly to flee back in time in Brown's rigged DeLorean. 'At the end of the movie — which, there's no spoilers, because this movie's 40 years old — you find out (Doc) was wearing a bulletproof vest the whole time. And that to me sort of is what my 20s have been like. There are all these events that are happening that feel like they should take me out, but I just keep standing up anyway,' McRae said. 'That's kind of the narrative of the album.' Resilience has long been a motif in McRae's songwriting. Her debut album, 'Are You Happy Now?', deftly tackled sexual predators and racist microaggressions with poetic meditations on identity, love, growth and beauty. On the album's most-streamed song, the ballad 'My Ego Dies in the End,' she sings, 'If I don't write about it, was it really worth it?' 'There's this quote that I can't cite, but someone said, as a writer, you've experienced enough by the age of 25 to have writing material for the rest of your life. I don't know if everyone agrees with that statement, but I certainly do,' McRae said. It's years of practice, and reflection, that have brought clarity to those experiences. 'I Don't Know How But They Found Me!' is composed of songs McRae wrote throughout her early 20s, in the wake of one relationship and the rise and fall of another. She finished the album last spring in North Carolina with producer Brad Cook, a collaborator of Bon Iver, Waxahatchee and Suki Waterhouse. The 10 days they spent on the record, McRae said, were 'a master class.' 'Jensen flat out blew me away on every single level,' said Cook, who met McRae for the first time when she arrived for the session. 'I got a master class from her as well, frankly. Jensen's just so organized, emotionally and spiritually, it was just really easy to go where the songs needed to go.' A video of McRae singing the first verse of her song ' Massachusetts,' accrued millions of TikTok views in the fall of 2023, well before it was released in full in July 2024. While the internet's interest in 'Immune' two years prior was momentarily destabilizing ('There's a meme of Patrick (from 'SpongeBob') coming home to his rock, and there are all these eyes poking out and he goes, 'Who are you people?' That was what I felt like,' McRae says), its embrace of 'Massachusetts' was confusing for other reasons. McRae was in the process of making this album, and the snippet she shared felt separate from the narrative she was constructing. Despite an onslaught of comments from listeners asking for the full song, she considered leaving it unreleased or tabling it for much later. Associated Press
Japan Today
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Japan Today
Jensen McRae makes authentic folk-pop the internet can't resist
By ELISE RYAN As the COVID-19 vaccine began distributing more widely in early 2021, California-raised singer-songwriter Jensen McRae affectionally joked in a tweet that Phoebe Bridgers would release a song in two years about 'hooking up in the car while waiting in line to get vaccinated at Dodger Stadium.' Bridgers didn't release the song, but McRae did. As the tweet took off, she threaded a video of herself singing 'a preemptive cover." 'Immune,' penned by McRae in Bridgers' contemplative style, was released in full within two weeks. 'It was a perfect storm,' McRae, 27, told The Associated Press. 'I was parodying Phoebe Bridgers who was becoming world famous in that exact moment. ... I was also writing about this topic that everyone was thinking about constantly because we were in lockdowns." Bridgers reposted the video, writing simply: 'oh my god.' The song preluded McRae's debut EP, released in 2021, and album, in 2022, which led to touring gigs with Muna and Noah Kahan. Last year, she signed with Dead Oceans, the same record label that represents Bridgers. McRae's sophomore album, the folk-pop 'I Don't Know How, But They Found Me!,' is out Friday. The title is a reference to 'Back to The Future,' her favorite movie. It's a line of dialogue said by scientist Doc Brown just before he falls in a hail of bullets, causing protagonist Marty McFly to flee back in time in Brown's rigged DeLorean. 'At the end of the movie — which, there's no spoilers, because this movie's 40 years old — you find out (Doc) was wearing a bulletproof vest the whole time. And that to me sort of is what my 20s have been like. There are all these events that are happening that feel like they should take me out, but I just keep standing up anyway," McRae said. 'That's kind of the narrative of the album.' Resilience has long been a motif in McRae's songwriting. Her debut album, 'Are You Happy Now?', deftly tackled sexual predators and racist microaggressions with poetic meditations on identity, love, growth and beauty. On the album's most-streamed song, the ballad 'My Ego Dies in the End,' she sings, 'If I don't write about it, was it really worth it?' "There's this quote that I can't cite, but someone said, as a writer, you've experienced enough by the age of 25 to have writing material for the rest of your life. I don't know if everyone agrees with that statement, but I certainly do,' McRae said. It's years of practice, and reflection, that have brought clarity to those experiences. 'I Don't Know How But They Found Me!' is composed of songs McRae wrote throughout her early 20s, in the wake of one relationship and the rise and fall of another. She finished the album last spring in North Carolina with producer Brad Cook, a collaborator of Bon Iver, Waxahatchee and Suki Waterhouse. The 10 days they spent on the record, McRae said, were 'a master class.' 'Jensen flat out blew me away on every single level," said Cook, who met McRae for the first time when she arrived for the session. 'I got a master class from her as well, frankly. Jensen's just so organized, emotionally and spiritually, it was just really easy to go where the songs needed to go." A video of McRae singing the first verse of her song ' Massachusetts," accrued millions of TikTok views in the fall of 2023, well before it was released in full in July 2024. While the internet's interest in 'Immune" two years prior was momentarily destabilizing ('There's a meme of Patrick (from 'SpongeBob') coming home to his rock, and there are all these eyes poking out and he goes, 'Who are you people?' That was what I felt like,' McRae says), its embrace of 'Massachusetts' was confusing for other reasons. McRae was in the process of making this album, and the snippet she shared felt separate from the narrative she was constructing. Despite an onslaught of comments from listeners asking for the full song, she considered leaving it unreleased or tabling it for much later. Then she got a huge cosign. 'When Justin Bieber posted about it, I was like, well, you forced my hand," McRae laughs. 'So then I changed course.' The solution, she realized, was that 'Massachusetts" — a song about the specific memories that don't leave you when a relationship ends — would be the conclusion to the album's story. Cook kept the song's production minimal, centering McRae's vocals and acoustic guitar. 'Every rhythm just reinforces that,' he said. 'This whole record, I would say, is a lesson in getting out of the way of the song as much as you're reinforcing it.' McRae hasn't been able to diagnose exactly why fans online are drawn to certain songs like 'Massachusetts" over others. Cook says it's the same amorphous quality that drives all good music: honesty. 'I think that the beauty of authenticity is it's just so powerful that you don't know why,' he said. In any case, McRae has worked to keep her brushes with internet fame from swaying her creative process. 'Every decision I'm making about this is like, 'Do I want this?' And 'Is this going to be a good move for my career?'' she said. 'Because eventually, no matter what I do, the viral moment passes.' But fans' reactions have helped her recognize what makes her deeply personal songs relatable — especially as she, too, considers the project with fresh ears and new perspective ahead of an upcoming tour. 'When you're going through something difficult, intellectually, you know you're not the first person to whom it's happened. But it feels that way," McRae said. 'Revisiting it now — one or two or three years after having written the song — I have an appreciation for how, like, of course people are going to have these songs resonate with them. Because of course I'm not the only person who's gone through these feelings.' © Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
South China Morning Post
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Jensen McRae? Justin Bieber is a fan, Phoebe Bridgers reposted the singer's video
As the Covid-19 vaccine began spreading more widely in early 2021, singer-songwriter Jensen McRae joked in a tweet that fellow US singer Phoebe Bridgers would release a song in two years about 'hooking up in the car while waiting in line to get vaccinated at Dodger Stadium', a ballpark in Los Angeles in the US state of California. Advertisement Bridgers did not release the song, but McRae did. As the tweet took off, she threaded a video of herself singing 'a pre-emptive cover'. 'Immune', penned by McRae in Bridgers' contemplative style, was released in full within two weeks. 'It was a perfect storm,' McRae, 27, says. 'I was parodying Phoebe Bridgers who was becoming world famous in that exact moment … I was also writing about this topic that everyone was thinking about constantly because we were in lockdowns.' Bridgers reposted the video, writing simply: 'oh my god'. Phoebe Bridgers at the Coachella festival in 2023. A song penned by Jensen McRae parodied Bridgers' music style. Photo: AP The song preluded McRae's debut EP, released in 2021, and album, in 2022, which led to touring gigs with indie pop band Muna and singer-songwriter Noah Kahan. Last year, she signed with Dead Oceans, the same record label that represents Bridgers. McRae's second album, the folk-pop I Don't Know How, But They Found Me!, is out this week.
