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Shame say keeping the same sound on album two would’ve been “fucking boring”
Shame have discussed their new sonic identity on their second album, labelling the idea of staying the same “fucking boring”.The band released ‘Drunk Tank Pink’, their follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed debut ‘Songs of Praise’, on Friday (January 15).Speaking in a new NME cover feature, the band say the new style put forward on the second record was a necessity rather than a choice.“I don’t think it would’ve been possible to write the first album again,” frontman Charlie Steen told NME, with drummer Charlie Forbes concurring that the idea of writing ‘Songs Of Praise’ part two was “fucking boring” to the band.“I don’t think we’ll ever write a tune and then think, ‘This is what the whole album is going to sound like’,” Forbes added.“There are
