Good Shoes Media

Morden's Good Shoes just released a media package for free! It includes a couple of videos, an acoustic version of The Way my Heart Beats and a b-side, Easier Easier, which is a really fantastic song.

Download the Package (direct)

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Review: Good Shoes - "No Hope, No Future"

London's Good Shoes prove that history does repeat itself.

If one was to examine how aspects of recorded music as we know it came to be, they would certainly come across the history of the LP - the long play release. In the middle of the last century, there was a great shift in recording style. Instead of releasing a few tracks, record companies thought that charging more for longer records could bring in more profit, and the LP was born. However, the quality of the 'additional' songs were low. Essentially, they were filler tracks.

With the recent release of the second Good Shoes album No Hope, No Future, I can't help but wonder if the past has repeated and manifested itself through their record. Please add it to the pile of recent disappointments. It's a very dark work, especially for following their first album Think Before You Speak, which was catchy, fun and really pretty good.

But don't get me wrong, there are a couple of really nice tracks on there. Closing cut City By the Sea is probably the best on the album and arguably the most complex in the whole discography. With its minor chord progressions and glimmer-of-hope lead guitar part, the band did manage to pull it together for the last track. With any luck it is the prequel to a better and brighter third album.

Country Flip/News in Brief

The Strokes are making a comeback appearance as a full group next year in June at the Isle of Wight Festival in England!

SXSW 2010 initial band listing is up on Stereogum, which includes our friends from London, Good Shoes. Their new LP No Hope, No Future comes out next month.

Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP is up and out digitally. Standout track "What Would I Want? Sky" is really fantastic and pretty straightforward for AC. Great hooks and lyrics, as usual. They're just not as buried. [hypem]

"On World AIDS Day, December 1, Live Nation will donate a portion of every ticket sold to its concerts in the United States to fight HIV/AIDS. All proceeds will benefit LIFEbeat, the music industry’s HIV/AIDS prevention charity in America."

Some new bands to try: Local Natives, The Hush Now, Thao with the Get Down...

Two Shoes

Fantastic London-based indie group Good Shoes announced today that they will be releasing "No Hope, No Future" on January 18th. The disc is their follow-up to 2007's "Think Before You Speak".

The single is Under Control, listen on myspace!
Free second single, The Way My Heart Beats, here.

Tracklisting:

01 The Way My Heart Beats
02 Everything You Do
03 I Know
04 Under Control
05 Do You Remember
06 Our Loving Mother In A Pink Diamond
07 Times Change
08 Thousand Miles An Hour
09 Then She Walks Away
10 City By The Sea

Move Your Feet

Good Shoes:
Fantastic pop/new wave band from England.
Give their album Think Before you Speak a listen!
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