Shame playing Dr Martens Boot Room in London (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Shame‘s contribution to the Spotify Sessions series has been shared.
The band performed One Rizla from their debut album Songs Of Praise along with a cover of The B52s’ Rock Lobster, and introduced it on social media with a knowing nod to the paltry earnings they receive from these streaming services. “A while back we recorded Rock Lobster and One Rizla for Spotify sessions and it has been birthed into the world today,” they wrote.
“Get streaming kids, for each 100,000 plays we can afford a kit-kat.”
“Hearts on sleeves is an approach wide open to patronising, centrist-Dad odes to caution, but in answer raspy lead singer Charlie Steen growls during the anthem-to-be One Rizla ‘you choose to hate my words/but do I give a f**k’, in doing so making a statement, not asking a question,” Live4ever’s Songs Of Praise review reads.
“Steen and the rest of band’s hubristic veneer is a feint, but each song is a concise journey into their minds, from the psychological contortions thrown up on Concrete to The Lick’s sleazy, hilarious strip club blues, the catchphrase “relatable, not debateable” telling the gushing, bearded tech-tards that their possessions are f***ing as well as owning them.