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Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This

Review by Paul Brown

To be quite honest, it’s difficult to resist the urge to pick out every song and highlight it as a focal point, because Fire Like This is so strong from start to finish. This isn’t really anything new, because Box of Secrets was similarly consistent. What is different, however, is the focus the band have found. In the past, there’s been an unfortunate tendency to take songs a chorus too far, but that doesn’t appear to be an issue any more. This is one of a few imperfections Blood Red Shoes have managed to overcome with their second album. The only problem they have now is that they haven’t really left themselves much room to improve for album three.»

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brighton's blood red shoes - laura-mary carter (vocals / guitar) and steven ansell (drums / vocals), two enthusiastic punk-inspired brawlers who channel the clamor of yeah yeah yeahs, the duke spirit, and huggy bear return with theire second album, 'fire like this'. the follow-up to 2008's 'box of secrets', has seen them take a new pop direction whilst still sticking to their roots. "the vocals are a bit more pop," singer / guitarist laura mary-carter explained, "but the music is actually heavier." drummer steven ansell added: "it's slower, which makes it feel heavier, and the melodies are more evil-sounding."
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