Canadian post punk band Sham Family have returned with their new single “Modern Myth” and its accompanying video.
The song, recorded, produced and mixed by Graham Walsh (METZ, Alvvays, fed Up, Preoccupations), is out now through Wavy Haze Records and is their first new material since their 2022 self-titled EP. Grab it here.
Speaking about it, the band shared: “‘Modern Myth’ takes on our society’s obsession with creating and recreating stories rather than truths. From National Enquirer alien babies to modern election interference, we have been consistently at odds trying to figure out what we actually know versus which fictions we’ve swallowed whole.”
Watch the Bee Pethick-directed video below.
Sham Family “Modern Myth” Lyrics:
He said he read the news today
about the man who looks a lot like me
but did it really occur
if it wasn’t on my tv
I’ve never seen it before
I’ve never seen it been put like this
so did it really occur
or has it sunk into the modern myth
L thought i heard the news today
about the man with nothing left to do
L couldn’t know for sure
but L thought man that really could have been you
have you been there before?
Have you seen it hurt quite like this?
Did it really occur
or has it slipped into the modern myth