Following the release of "A Quiet Life", UK band shame have shared the music video for the third single from their new record Cutthroat, "Sparktak". This new track — an alt rock song inspired by Wilco — comes just a few weeks before the album's release (the band's fourth studio album) on September 5 via Dead Oceans.

Watch the video (directed by shame vocalist Charlie Steen) "Sparktak" below:

Meeting somewhere in between the explosive, raucous punk energy of "Cutthroat" and the mellow, rockabilly swing of "A Quiet Life", "Sparktak" finds vocalist Steen singing about social climbing, cliques, and group mentality. The clip sees him stumbling through the outskirts of London alone (that is, until he's reunited with the band at the end).

"I guess this disdain towards cliques comes from how shit I was made to feel by the cool kids growing up," Steen explains via press release. "I was a chubby teenager who liked the wrong type of music and wore the wrong type of clothes. It’s just another time I’d like to say fuck you to those people, and to anyone who makes someone feel shitty for not fitting in."

"I was basically trying to write a Wilco song," adds guitarist Sean Coyle-Smith.

You can preorder Cutthroat here, and check out their lengthy list of tour dates here.

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