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- Artist(s): Ben Greenberg
- Summary: The fourth full-length release for the New York industrial metal trio was mixed by Randall Dunn.
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- Record Label: Sacred Bones
- Genre(s): Industrial, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Noise-Rock
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The WireNov 6, 2020What they sculpt is impressive if not entirely unfamiliar. [Oct 2020, p.65]
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Sep 14, 2020This is not your average industrial metal album folks – this is a slab of repugnant, malignant noise made with evil intent. For all the hype and bluster surrounding the most popular metal acts, Uniform deserve recognition as one of finest purveyors of heavy metal (of any kind) anywhere in the world. They’re now six albums into their career, and they’ve never been stronger.
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Sep 14, 2020Shame is a weighty slab of industrial punk that is effectively the soundtrack to a tortured soul mentally coming apart. Reinventing a core element of themselves, Uniform present a side they have previously kept boiling angrily under a darkened surface.
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Sep 29, 2020Shame is Uniform’s fourth album in roughly five years, and the range and muscle they’ve incrementally built up in their sound is bolstered here with the addition of drummer Mike Sharp.
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Sep 15, 2020Shame is another great record from Uniform. Slightly more mature, perhaps even more confident, than some of the visceral slabs of pure adrenaline that marked their earlier releases, it’s a record that plays with extremes but with a command over the noise created. The overarching thematic intent of the record gets lost, truth be told, as the rush of sounds overwhelm the lyrics but this just gives you more reason to go back to it to pick those narrative elements apart.
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Sep 14, 2020Like other Uniform records, Shame is bleak and chaotic, but feels unmistakably honest and true to life.
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Sep 21, 2020Shame’s standout songs combine the band’s ugly intensities with inspired bursts of melodic riffing.