Blood Red Shoes - 'Say Something / Say Anything'
Oh well, if you INSIST... This is what I have to say. I like your band, I really do. I like the mix of fiery playing, aggro-shouty street urchin singing and accusatory lyrics. I particularly like that song of yours called 'It's Getting Boring By The Sea', that was a cracker.
And this song contains a lot of what made that song good. But for some reason it doesn't quite gel properly. All of the individual sections are fine, but they sit together uneasily, and it makes for uncomfortable listening (and not in a cool, 'challenging' way).
The verses, for example, seem to build towards something, but the thing they build towards isn't the chorus that we actually get. And the real climax of the song - that "how long can you miss someone?" howl-fest - feels edited in.
Thinking about it, the whole SONG feels edited together, and that includes the vocals, which sometimes seem to be taken from an entirely different song. And while that does sometimes happen with an unfamiliar song, that feeling usually goes away once you've lived with it for a bit.
It hasn't, if you're wondering...
There, I bet you wish you hadn't been so keen on canvassing opinion now, eh, Blood Red Shoes?
Download: Out now
CD Released: March 3rd
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
ok this has nothing to do with anything much but how did you write this in the future?!
it says you wrote this on 5th April but ...??
today is the fourth!
[Did I not tell you I live in the future? It's great! I always know whether it's going to rain or not. - Fraser]