Uniform announce new album ‘Shame’

UNIFORM have announced a new album!

Titled Shame, the upcoming album from the New York-based noise rock band follows 2018’s Mental Wounds Not Healing and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Sacred Bones.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Michael Berdan says, “thematically, the album is like a classic hard-boiled paperback novel without a case. It focuses on the static state of an antihero as he mulls over his life in the interim between major events, just existing in the world. At the time we were making the record, I was reading books by Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, and Dashiell Hammet and strangely found myself identifying with the internal dialogues of characters like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, UNIFORM have released the first song from the upcoming record; titled Delco. The track reflects on Berdan’s upbringing in a suburb west of Philadelphia and how beatings and bullying by the local hellraisers taught him how to keep his guard up and navigate a violent world. Speaking about the new song, Berdan reveals, “during my adolescence I would get routinely picked on and beat up by some of the kids in the neighbourhood who I desperately wanted to like me. The more beatings I caught, the more I’d go back to try and impress them. My self esteem was nonexistent and I developed psychological calluses. I learned to repeat some of the behaviours that had been leveled my way on those beneath me in the pecking order. In time, I became numb. Getting older and attempting to reconcile with personal demons surrounding depression, anxiety and substance abuse has forced me to take a long, hard look at my childhood. In the process I’ve realised to degrees just how I’ve perpetuated learned cycles of harm. A terrified part of me is still a little kid in Delco. This song is an exercise in trying to come to terms with these ghosts and let go. Some days are better than others.”

Listen to Delco here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

1. Delco
2. The Shadow of God’s Hand
3. Life in Remission
4. Shame
5. All We’ve Ever Wanted
6. Dispatches from the Gutter
7. This Won’t End Well
8. I Am the Cancer

Shame is set for release on September 11th via Sacred Bones.

For more information on UNIFORM like their official page on Facebook.