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Feb 22, 2023It feels cohesive and wholeheartedly honest, embracing its rough edges with vulnerability. Guitar scene frontrunners once again? Most certainly.
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Feb 22, 2023‘Food For Worms’ bulges with high-octane surprise. This is the sound of a band performing at the peak of their powers.
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Feb 28, 2023Food for Worms‘ greatest strength is to chronicle how incredible it can feel to be in the presence of this band, at this moment. It feels as if you could almost reach out and touch them, rip open their shirts and feel their sweat.
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Feb 28, 2023Food For Worms is a dark, deeply felt album that resonates even at its most frantic and obscure.
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Feb 24, 2023Shame’s latest offering is a refreshing refuge for those thirsting for music that stirs you up live, and allows you to play witness to a band’s evolution of sound.
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Feb 24, 2023Food for Worms is all the more exciting for its contrasts in brutality and beauty. It’s challenging, consummately constructed, and thrilling throughout.
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Feb 23, 2023Food for Worms features shame’s strongest music in the pantheon of their short discography. They hit a new creative stride through the album’s dense textures and complex structure, allowing them to shape otherworldly arrangements for their evolved songwriting.
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Feb 23, 2023Food for Worms sees Shame confidently embrace their flaws and resign themselves to the messy, beautiful chaos of their live shows. It’s all captured within this bedhead of a record.
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MojoFeb 22, 2023Tracks such as the thunderous Six-Pack or The Fall Of Paul might clang with dissonant noise or pinball off into a riot of machine gun rhythms, but it's generally not at the expense of songs that a festival crowd could bellow back at them. [Apr 2023, p.83]
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Feb 21, 2023The result is an album soaked in nostalgia and melancholy but retains the razor-sharp edge that make shame so brilliant.
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Feb 23, 2023The songwriting is the group’s sharpest to date. They can still whip up the staccato panic-attack special (see: “Alibis”), but that’s no longer the main attraction, nor the most compelling material.
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Feb 24, 2023The opening half of Food for Worms is split between exhausting punk ragers and introspective indie-rock numbers. ... With Food for Worms, Shame does manage to reach new heights on the closer, a winding, Glastonbury-sized anthem entitled “All the People.”
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Feb 27, 2023A well-crafted and brilliantly performed album, it showcases a group bringing in new influences and ideas, all with an infectious sense of enthusiasm and energy. It’s an exciting third chapter for a band that, for all that assuredness, still sounds hungry.
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Feb 27, 2023On Food for Worms, Shame don't so much discard everything that came before as they strip away what doesn't fit anymore. Occasionally, the results are a little muddled, but at its best, the album is a thrilling testament to creative bravery.
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Feb 23, 2023As far as third albums go, this is definitely more of an Ultra Mono than a Skinty Fia – a consolidation of their position rather than a leap at greatness.
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Mar 6, 2023A small step back in the right direction, but at times they still sound somewhat leaden.
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UncutFeb 21, 2023The caustic wit of their first two albums is too often buried under shouty non-choruses and dirgey post-punk bluster, either side of a couple of more notable moments. [Mar 2023, p.35]
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Feb 21, 2023Aside from one or two cuts, though, nothing here is as satisfying as previous Shame highlights like the nervy, ominous “Snow Day” or “Nigel Hitter,” whose splintered dance-rock managed to be both hooky and weird. For the most part, Food for Worms manages to be neither.
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Feb 21, 2023Food for Worms is frustrating in its lack of direction, but more than anything, frustrating because it could be spectacular.
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