Good Shoes-Never meant to hurt you
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MyVillage
Good Shoes-Never meant to hurt you
Release date:Out now
Format: Single
Genre: Indie
Our Rating: 4/5
As the indie scene effervesces to saturation, along comes Good Shoes to ignite the withering light. With so many bands trailing for the longed NME syllables, ‘The Next Best Thing’ Good Shoes are not far behind.
‘Never meant to hurt you’ is barbaric in guitar riffs. It is their precision to convert real life scenarios into their quirky mode that makes you realize Good Shoes’ core talent. Lyrics such as ‘She was so Topshop’ and ‘Do you feel like a lion from the start’ are effortlessly catchy.
Review by Priya MyVillage
Press release
Good Shoes’ open minded and unsentimental approach to music brings with it a unique take on the Punk and Pop tapestry. Far more likely to name check their peers than a long-regarded bastion of British music history, they bring neither history nor preconceptions to their music, resulting in a genuine, modern freshness. And like their peers Jamie T, Jack Penate and Lily Allen, Good Shoes resist pigeon-holing, having chosen wry insight and a discerning turn of phrase to make their musical statements. Nearly every lyric could be a brilliant t-shirt quote.
As 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 5th before the longplayer ‘Think Before You Speak’ finally satiates their fans’ patience on the 19th 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.
Uncommonly well presented and well delivered pop music, this is how your favourite band should always have sounded. Mostly though they have one thing in common with every great ‘sound of the suburbs’. Every song belongs on the dance-floor. Quite an astounding achievement for four young friends, who continue to meet and rehearse in their garden shed in Morden.
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