To be honest I thought I’d posted about this last week. But I hadn’t and can only conclude I am losing the few marbles I had left.
Anyway, it’s a new single from Blood Red Shoes who I refuse to accept have been a unit for 17 years. If that makes them feel old imagine how I feel!
It’s up there with their very best work too, as is often the case with a Blood Red Shoes track there’s an air of cinematic creeping menace, of a dystopian world, crashing and burning as it jackhammers its way into your head. It’s something of a mystery why the band haven’t quite broken through to that next level of success when far lesser bands have. Perhaps its down to wanting to retain creative control? Then again it could be as simple as we live in a country with questionable taste. Y’know the one that voted for Brexit, the one in which polling suggests the majority still hold the incongorus, evidentially flawed opinion that Boris Johnson is simply “doing his best,” and one that still watches “Mrs Browns Boys.”
Blood Red Shoes are and always will be a fucking fantastic band and this new track is taken from their forthcoming album “GHOSTS ON TAPE” which the duo of Laura- Mary Carter and Stephen Ansell promise will be their darkest work to date. So that’ll be pretty dark then.
“Ultimately this album is an invitation”, explains Steven. “It’s us saying, this is our world, these are our darkest thoughts and feelings – our ghosts – caught on tape. You are welcome to join us. Come and embrace the strange”.
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The band have also announced a run of UK & European dates in early 2022. The full list of dates is as follows:
18.01.22 – The Fleece – BRISTOL
19.01.22 – Rescue Rooms – NOTTINGHAM
20.01.22 – O2 Institute 2- BIRMINGHAM
21.01.22 – Brudenell Social Club – LEEDS
22.01.22 – Academy 3 – MANCHESTER
24.01.22 – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut – GLASGOW
25.01.22 – St Dominic’s Catholic Club – NEWCASTLE
26.01.22 – Chalk – BRIGHTON
27.01.22 – The Garage – LONDON
29.01.22 – La Maroquinerie – PARIS
31.01.22 – L’Epicerie Moderne – LYON
01.02.22 – Stereolux – NANTES
02.02.22 – Le 106 – ROUEN
03.02.22 – Kavka Zappa – ANTWERP
04.02.22 – VERA – GRONINGEN
05.02.22 – Melkweg OZ – AMSTERDAM
07.02.22 – Tivol Vredenburg Pandora – UTRECHT
08.02.22 – Muziekgieterij – MAASTRICHT
09.02.22 – Gloria Theater – COLOGNE
10.02.22 – Markthalle – HAMBURG
11.02.22 – Metropol – BERLIN
12.02.22 – Technikum – MUNICH
14.02.22 – Flex – VIENNA
15.02.22 – Tvornica – ZAGREB
18.02.22 – Aurora – ST PETERSBURG
19.02.22 – Aglomerat – MOSCOW
The track listing of the album, produced by Tom Dalgety (Pixies, Royal Blood) and recorded at Echo Zoo Studios in March 2020, is as follows:
1. COMPLY
2. MORBID FASCINATION
3. MURDER ME
4. (i’ve been watching you)
5. GIVE UP
6. SUCKER
7. BEGGING
8. (you claim to understand)
9. I AM NOT YOU
10. DIG A HOLE
11. I LOSE WHATEVER I OWN
12. (what have you been waiting for?)
13. FOUR TWO SEVEN
