9/11/2020

UNIFORM release compelling video "Life in Remission" -- New album 'Shame' out today on Sacred Bones

UNIFORM SHARE THE STARTLING VIDEO FOR "LIFE IN REMISSION"
APPEARING ON THE NEW ALBUM SHAME, OUT TODAY ON SACRED BONES

REVEAL TRACK BY TRACK GUIDE VIA CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND HERE

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Press Photo By Ebru Yildiz 
 
NYC primal punks Uniform share another work of art, an astonishing new video (directed by A. F. Cortes) for "Life In Remission" the latest single from their new album Shame, out today on Sacred Bones.

About the track vocalist Michael Berdan comments, "The lyrics of Life In Remission deal with loss, guilt, and the facade of a stable life. It’s about the persistent voice in my head constantly telling me that I’m a fraud and urging me toward self destruction. It’s about becoming numb to tragedy. It’s about seeing those around me suffer and die and knowing all too well that it just as easily could have been me a million times over. It’s a song of equal parts anger, regret, and cold despondency.”

The video director A.F. Cortes adds, "With this video, I wanted to use the body as a communication tool of chaos. A deconstruction story told through ritual and action. Two friends’ bond is gone wrong from a visceral and perverse perspective. Inspired by abstract expressionism, instead of playing opposites with the music, I wanted to match its intensity like a Jackson Pollock painting, a piece that feels filthy, messy, claustrophobic, yet beautiful and contained."

Uniform - Life in Remission (Official Music Video)
Over the past decade, Uniform’s Michael Berdan and Ben Greenberg have bulldozed a path to the forefront of the underground. Through their various projects and Greenberg’s production work (Bing & Ruth, Pharmakon, Johann Johannson and many more), the two have served as major forces and key members of NYC’s experimental, electronic, punk and metal scenes.

Shame marks the debut of Mike Sharp on drums, adding a natural fire to the engine. His presence grinds down their metallic industrial edge with a live percussive maelstrom. This time around, they’ve joined forces with Randall Dunn (Marissa Nadler, Sun O))), Earth) to perfect their powerful hybrid of digital and analog, electronic and acoustic, synthetic and actual that has become their hallmark.

For the first time, vocalist Berdan made a conscious decision to include lyrics which focus on the static state of an antihero as he mulls over his life in the interim between major events, just existing in the world. On Shame, the trio strain struggle through an industrialized mill of grating guitars, warped electronics, war-torn percussion and demonically catchy vocalizations giving us 8 of Uniform’s most powerful tracks yet. The three set down to discuss Shame’s concepts, themes and production in its entirety. Dig in track by track today over at Consequence of Sound here.

Shame is out today on Sacred Bones. For more info or to order go here. Keep up with the latest Uniform updates on Instagram here.
Album Artwork By Heather Gabel 

Shame Track Listing:

1 - Delco
2 - The Shadow of God’s Hand
4 - Shame
5 - All We’ve Ever Wanted
6 - Dispatches from the Gutter (Official Video)
7 - This Won’t End Well
8 - I Am the Cancer

“Noise-rock icons” FLOOD

"the raw emotional edge they bring to the table, alongside fast and rough punk overtones, render their music imperfectly human." 4/5 KERRANG!

“It’s grim.. It’s noisy…” THE NEEDLE DROP

“If you, like me, are attracted to pummeling sounds at what so often feels like the end of the world, look no further” JEZEBEL

“Uniform‘s music feels like a particularly intense form of therapy. Their songs are loud and punishing, unapologetically so” TREBLE

“Crushing” REVOLVER

"A mixture of militaristic early industrial metal harshness and sewer-worthy noise rock.”
METAL HAMMER

“Blending elements of industrial, drone, and power electronics, the band unleash brutal landscapes and oppressive moods.” CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

“Furious and fast” STEREOGUM

“Unhinged hardcore and metallic riffs” PASTE

“Throughout the LP’s lean yet undeniably mean run time, the trio veers wildly from churning sludge, to breakneck hardcore, to thundering doom metal within the same song on one more than one occasion” NORTHERN TRANSMISSONS

“Pummeling” BROOKLYN VEGAN


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