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Rating: The Brad is a pleasant discovery that should be absorbed slowly to be fully understood.
Shame, the first album of their discography (followed by Interiors and Welcome To The Discovery Park), has velvety and scratchy sounds that slowly penetrate the cerebral mazes of the listener, leaving behind indelible traces.
The album opens with "Buttercup," a track where the piano and Shawn Smith's voice (singer of Satchel) come together to form a dense melancholic atmosphere, with Gossard’s guitar (guitarist of Pearl Jam) interposing with sharp strums; "My Fingers" and "Nadine" follow, and the atmosphere almost returns to being sunny.
Then comes "Screen," track number 4: the start is like a boulder of emotions that, concentrated into 5.12 minutes, hurl the listener into the deepest of abysses, cerebral and emotional at the same time. Melancholy returns in Smith's voice, which Gossard slowly transforms into anger; everything flows smoothly, and the bass, quiet, follows the discourse, peeking almost coyly between the bars, insistent and pleasant.
It will be with the next track (20th Century) that "the 4 strings" will steal the scene by playing harmonies that are both simple and enveloping.
Shame is a complete album and is also demonstrated by the funky sound of the ironic "Bad For The Soul." An album that is certainly not straightforward and not easy to assimilate, but when geniuses like Gossard play, nothing can be understood immediately...
A must-have.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
02 My Fingers (03:19)
Yesterday was quite a day
I'm amazingly well
All my tears and worries
My lady can't you tell
But wait until my mind is scarred
I'm buyin'
Don't have to tell you my reasons lord
Don't have to show me your fingers god
Don't have to reason you'll dance all night
Don't have to measure your god all the time
Yesterday I beg you give my love a try
Oh c'mon with attitude and let it fly, yeah
Don't have to tell me your reasons lord
Don't have to tell me your fingers are mine
Don't have to let me go wandering
Don't have to let me go wandering
05 20th Century (04:02)
Well I'm swearing to God
Yeah, I'm so nervous
I can not feel anything
Save the tips of my fingers
Whenever comes
Just might not be the moment
Raise the roof, Yeah let's get out of this
My friends
20th Century
My friends
My friends
Pay attention y'all
To the signs
Pay attention to the questions
Let the energy rise to the moment
Yeah, that look in your eyes no description
My friends
20th Century
My friends
20th Century
My friends
20th Century
My friends
My friends
Just a little bit farther...
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By vulgarbaro83
The album shines with musicality and holy desperation in the dark atmospheres of 'Buttercup.'
'Shame' is definitely indispensable in the record collection of those who have loved with their heart and not just 'with a fashionable approach' the last true rock revolution of our era.
