shame have unveiled the brand new track/video ‘Adderall’, the latest single to be taken from their anticipated upcoming third record Food for Worms, out this Friday, via Dead Oceans.
‘Adderall’ is something of a sombre midpoint to Food for Worms, arriving after a pulsating opening few tracks. The pace is lowered for the poignancy of Charlie Steen’s lyrics before opening up into the song’s anthemic chorus.
On the track, Steen notes:
“Adderall is the observation of a person reliant on prescription drugs. These pills shift their mental and physical state and alter their behaviour, it’s about how this affects them and those around them. It’s a song of compassion, frustration and the acceptance of change. It’s partly coming to terms with the fact that sometimes your help and love can’t cure those around you but, as much as it causes exasperation, you still won’t ever stop trying to help”
‘Adderall’ follows recently released 6 Music A-listed singles ‘Fingers of Steel’ and ‘Six-Pack’, and sees shame enter a new, surreal landscape, as reflected in the cover art designed by acclaimed artist Marcel Dzama. It’s suggestive of what is left unsaid, what lies beneath the surface, the farcical and fantastical everyday that we are living in, in a society where both everything and nothing is possible.
On the one hand, new album Food for Worms calls to mind a certain morbidity, but on the other, it’s a celebration of life; the way that, in the end, we need each other. The album is an ode to friendship, and a documentation of the dynamic that only five people who have grown up together – and grown so close, against all odds – can share.
It’s through this, and defiance, that the band have continually moved forward together; finding light in uncomfortable contractions and playing their vulnerabilities as strengths: The near-breakdowns, identity crises, frontman Charlie Steen routinely ripping his top off on stage as a way of tackling his body weight insecurities. Everything is thrown into their live show and the best shows of their lives are happening now.
Now they arrive, finally, at a place of hard-won maturity. Enter: Food for Worms, which Steen declares to be “the Lamborghini of shame records.”
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‘Food for Worms’ tracklist:
- Fingers Of Steel
- Six-Pack
- Yankees
- Alibis
- Adderall
- Orchid
- The Fall Of Paul
- Burning By Design
- Different Person
- All The People
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https://shame.deadoc.co/food-for-worms
