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No Hope, No Future

Good Shoes | Format: Audio CD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (25 Jan 2010)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Brille
  • ASIN: B002YP4ETC
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 90,521 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Way My Heart Beats, The
2. Everything You Do
3. I Know
4. Under Control
5. Do You Remember
6. Our Loving Mother In A Pink Diamond
7. Times Change
8. Thousand Miles An Hour, A
9. Then She Walks Away
10. City By The Sea

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BBC Review

Think Before You Speak, the 2007 debut from these spiky-of-guitars Londoners, was all about getting out of suburbia: tales of teen infatuation from the extremities of the Northern Line. This follow-up is about getting out of love. Singer Rhys Jones underwent a protracted break-up during the writing period and his heartbreak is writ large across this charmingly scratchy half-hour. “Times change, but I love you the same,” he warbles, like XTC’s Andy Partridge at his most emotionally fragile; “then she walks away.” No Hope, No Future? The boy got it bad.

Has it dampened their effervescent art pop any? Sparingly, yes. Everything You Do plods with a mournful monotony usually reserved for Cure albums, but otherwise we’re in familiar jolt-pop territory here. The Way My Heart Beats quivers with the same itchy vitality that made their early singles such Cloverfields of indie dancefloors; Under Control is as much like The Rakes as you can get without quitting an economics degree due to the ravages of sclerosis.

Rhys was overstating the case when he touted this as a “more intricate and heavier” album, but it’s when Good Shoes push their stylistic envelope that Rhys also overcomes his lyrical despondency and gets philosophical. Over the disjointed punk of I Know he rants around the religion debate in a fit of Black Francis hysteria: “To be raised with religion is to be brainwashed from the very start / but an atheist preaching atheism is just as bad as so heartily believing in God”. Our Loving Mother in a Pink Diamond plays a similarly wrong-footing trick: childhood holiday snapshots over the kind of prog guitar solos not heard this side of Genesis’ Foxtrot. Yet it’s authentically ramshackle enough to come across as an ironic nod to theatrical 70s British rock whimsy. The cheeky blighters.

After 30 minutes of ardent indie crackle, closer City by the Sea comes as a soothing shock – a lush urban ballad in the vein of Jamie T. A polished version of this sort of thing took The Wombats to the business end of the charts, but Good Shoes’ charm lies in their DIY aesthetic; they record in garden sheds and mates’ studios and align themselves with art-rock luminaries like The Maccabees, who themselves delivered a much feted ‘dark’ second album in 2009. Good Shoes have home-produced a record worthy of similar plaudits; there’s both hope and future here in abundance. --Mark Beaumont

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I would love to give this album 5 stars. The Good Shoes are one of my favourite bands. However, the second album is not as immediately catchy as the first. Easy Sing a long choruses have been replaced with a more complicated sound, which takes a few more listenings to appreciate. The Good Shoes still have the punchy pop driven guitar songs,along with wry Ironic lyrics from the first album. However, their second album (shorter than the first, around 30 mins) is more difficult to instantly appreciate. Without getting to anal and listing all tracks highs/lows etc. If you have first album and are thinking about buying this, I would say give it a go. Its growing on me all the time and next week I will probally give it 5***************
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Excellent 17 Nov 2010
By AL
Format:Audio CD
Definitely worth the purchase & would recommend. It doesn't have the consistency of their 1st album & takes more listens to get into but some of the standout tracks are as good if not better than anything on the 1st. "The Way My Heart Beats", "Everything You Do", "Then She Walks Away" & "City By the Sea" are for me the best tracks, all bordering on amazing. The album also benefits from not being as long as the 1st. BUY IT!!
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A grower not a shower 20 May 2010
Format:Audio CD
Where 'Think Before You Speak' was a study in laissez-faire arrogance and relationship insouciance, 'No Hope No Future's' humbler themes of longing and relative heartache necessarily require a darker tone. Nonetheless, the hooks, whilst fewer and farther between, still can't help but jostle their way to the forefront. And so, whilst clumsily politicised rumblers like `I Know' are missteps, tracks like `The Way My Heart Beats' and `City by the Sea' are up there with the best from their excellent debut. Meanwhile, `Do You Remember' shows off hitherto unseen guitar-smarts, with licks wound tight enough to befit obvious musical forebears XTC.

Choice Cuts: `The Way My Heart Beats', `City by the Sea', `Do You Remember'
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