Album Info

My Shame Is True (Deluxe Edition)

Rock - 2013

Ask seasoned songwriters what helps in putting together a great album, and more often than not they’ll say heartbreak. Alkaline... more

Tracklist

1

She Lied to the FBI

2:48 min
2

I Wanna Be a Warhol

3:08 min
3

I'm Only Here to Disappoint

2:46 min
4

Kiss You to Death

3:21 min
5

The Temptation of St. Anthony

3:34 min
6

I, Pessimist

2:10 min
7

Only Love

4:35 min
8

The Torture Doctor

3:37 min
9

Midnight Blue

2:44 min
10

One Last Dance

3:28 min
11

Young Lovers

3:31 min
12

Until Death Do Us Part

4:13 min
13

Balanced on a Shelf

4:06 min
14

Pocket Knife

2:43 min
15

Broken Wing

3:28 min
16

Sun Burns

3:41 min

About My Shame Is True (Deluxe Edition)

Ask seasoned songwriters what helps in putting together a great album, and more often than not they’ll say heartbreak. Alkaline Trio’s ninth studio LP is overflowing with such emotional purging. Frontman and guitarist Matt Skiba has said he envisioned singing a lengthy apology note to his ex-girlfriend when recording My Shame Is True (with its title a nod to Elvis Costello's 1977 debut, My Aim Is True). In the leadoff song, “She Lied to the FBI,” Skiba contrasts near-confectionary punk-pop with lyrics alluding to his self-imprisonment. He takes the blame for getting dumped by singing, “I’m doing time for you.” The following “I Wanna Be a Warhol” is the album’s salient hit. With catchy barbed pop hooks, Skiba dreams of morphing into the silkscreened Andy Warhol art that hangs in his muse’s bedroom. It’s hard not to compare the bonus track “Pocket Knife” to songs by The Strokes—it’s got post-punk rhythms, stuttered guitar riffs, and some of that Julian Casablancas–style vocal distortion.