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Never Meant To Hurt You (Radio Edit) / Valley Boy / Saturday / It's Impossible / Never Meant To Hurt You (Demo Version)
BRILLE RECORDS
Resembling a more angular and lithe update on Pulp, Good Shoes are a band continuing to impress with every new release. Already hotly tipped for big things in 2007, NEVER MEANT TO HURT YOU is another song that explodes from the starting blocks in a frenzied jostle of jerky guitar snaps, scattershot drum hits and excitable vocal yelps.
The kind of thing indie dancefloors have been crying out for since the last Franz Ferdinand album, angular guitar jerks and frenetic drum beats vying for attention, Rhys Jones dropping his arch vocal melodies over the top and completing his transformation into a Jarvis Cocker for the new generation.
Good Shoes are looking like a band set to enjoy a very good year ahead of them, a string of great singles and a hotly anticipated debut album waiting in the wings. NEVER MEANT TO HURT YOU is another fantastic single of jagged pop presence and indie-rock charm; this is sure to be the beginnings of something huge.
BIOGRAPHY
A preview of the sublime development of their sound since signing with Brille some eighteen months ago the band release NEVER MEANT TO HURT YOU on March 13th before the longplayer THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK finally satiates their fans' patience on the 26th and provides a testament to the benefits of not rushing a debut album. With such typically touching vignettes of young relationships as "Things were so much better when we were young, I never meant to hurt you, you never knew I didn't love you...im just sorry im such a typical man", along with the kind of precision musicianship that bands slave for and Good Shoes effortlessly produce having already done their share of slaving, its another anthem from Rhys et al.
With their first 7" selling for 20 pounds on ebay, and their second sold out in a week, south London kings of teen angst and suburban malaise Good Shoes are set to release their first full single ALL IN MY HEAD on Brille Records. The quintessentially British sound combined with the youthful swagger of Rhys Jones unique song writing makes them one of the most exciting bands around today. This is a foursome that makes the writing of great singles seem simple, their simple catchy songs and melodies belying hidden lyrical and musical depth. And there is Rhys' voice, swinging beautifully between arrogance and insecurity, innocence and insouciance.
LINE UP
Rhys Jones
Joel Cox
Steve Leach
Tom Jones
DISCOGRAPHY
WE ARE NOT THE SAME (Brille>2006)
We Are Not The Same
Southwest Trains
May Lannoye
Things To Make And Do
ALL IN MY HEAD (Brille Records>2006)
All In My Head
Questions & Answers
Wrong & Right
THE PHOTOS ON MY WALL (Brille Records>2006)
The Photos On My Wall
Beautiful
Death Fame
NEVER MEANT TO HURT YOU (Brille Records>2007)
Never Meant To Hurt You (Radio Edit)
Valley Boy
Saturday
It's Impossible
Never Meant To Hurt You (Demo Version)
LINKS
Good Shoes>www.goodshoes.co.uk
FURTHER LISTENING
The Strokes
Razorlight
The Kooks
Review date: February 2007 |
