Remember 2007? Nope, me either. But one thing I do recall is Good Shoes: their album, Think Before You Speak, was rightly hailed as one of the year’s best. On the surface a fairly generic, choppy-and-chirpy indie pop, repeat listens revealed unseen subtleties – nice off-chords, and poetic, honest evocations of South London life. The Morden band had none of the swagger or arrogance of many bands of the day, nor the soppy earnestness that swamps today’s indie crop.
Why this trip down Memory Lane? For, good reason: Good Shoes are finally releasing a second album, No Hope, No Future, on 25 January. Judging from that and free release The Way My Heart Beats, you’re looking at a pared-down, starker sound, but still with those same subtleties. The first single, Under Control, is out now (free on Good Shoes’ website) and on video above. To support the record, Good Shoes are playing (and indeed hosting) the Hope & Future Festival at The Stag’s Head in Dalston (more about that here soon)
MySpace | Website | Buy | MP3: Good Shoes – The Way My Heart Beats
Y’all heard cyclo-flo’s songs at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhvW-OraN8g
or
http://www.reverbnation.com/cyclo
Got his mixtape online at
http://www.nairatunes.com/store/hip-hoprnb/c
yclo-flo/