Blood Red Shoes

Blood Red Shoes

The White Stripes they ain't, Blood Red Shoes is my most recent favorite band! I mean how can you not knocked head over heels to this Brighton-based two pieces?

Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell formed the Blood Red Shoes, back in 2004 after the break-ups of their previous bands, Lady Muck and Cat On Form, respectively.

They productively released 7" vinyls before they made their first LP, titled Box of Secrets in 2008 and Fire Like This in 2010. By the way, you can read more about the band here

I've gone head over heels after I listened to their "It's Getting Boring By The Sea" which is featured in the OST of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. I know it's kinda lame way to be introduced to a particular band that way (by means of movie's soundtrack), but hey, it's a revelation, nonetheless, and I'm grateful for it.

Being a washed-up drummer like I am, I must admit that Blood Red Shoes is the band I never had. They got both the sound and attitude of the 90's, which they admit as their influence, without having the slightest obligation to really affiliate themselves with the genre.

I won't make any notion about the way they looks (I can imagine how sick and bored they are with the subject by now). Yes she is cute, and yes he is also (I guess... I've never judge a man's looks before) and they both can switch to modelling any day they want, but that's that.

More important to me is the way they made me feel. Listening to them makes me want to write my music again, listening to them have reminded me of dream long forgotten: to be heard, to inspire, to make some damage through music, for which I eternally indebted.