BLOOD RED SHOES – FIRE LIKE THIS

BLOOD RED SHOES – FIRE LIKE THIS

We love simple. Loud bitchin’ guitars, big thumpin’ drums and kick ass vocals. What more do we need to keep us warm against this encroaching winter. Making more noise than The White Stripes, with a greater sense of 60s pop history than Interpol and with a greater sense of fun than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Blood Red Shoes (a name possibly inspired by Ginger Rogers who allegedly had to redo one dance scene so many times that her white dancing shoes ended up soaked in blood) Fire Like This makes a mockery of the “difficult second album” syndrome. Redordead on analogue gear, with a back-to-basics ethos, this seems to have filled out the Blood Red Shoes sound impressively. With the exception of the odd cello, we are talking guitar, drums and vocals filling out a wall-of-sound aesthetic that sounds like there is … well so much more. From the simple riff (borrowed from Interpol) and almost fragile vocal that begin When We Wake to the fuzz wall guitar and insistently yelled vocal chorus of Light It Up the colour and shade on Fire Like This is an impressive feat. This is a band that you want to hear, and the more you hear the more you enjoy. Jump into this mosh pit.

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