Good Shoes - Think BeforeYou Speak

Tue 19th Jun, 2007 in Music Reviews

My first contact with Good Shoes was during a screening of their finely elaborated video for ‘All in my Head’ in Boston as part of a selection of the Mirrorball festival of Edinburgh. As I listened each of the tracks of their debut album, Think before You Speak, I realized that this indie pop-rock band from Morden, England doesn’t just have great potential; they have an amazing talent to entertain.

‘Nazanin’ the album’s first track only have a single line: “All of my insecurities are summed up, when you walk into my room,” yet it will be a recurring theme through the album along with heartbreaks and daily concerns. ‘The Photos On My Wall’ and ‘All in Head’ are the album’s best tracks both providing positive and progressive beats with lyrics like: “All in my head all my hopes and my fears, and I lay it all out all for you all to see.”

Tracks like ‘We Are Not The Same’ will keep you moving through the song’s fast paced and energetic rhythm while ‘Things to make and do’ will definitely keep you bursting into dance, or at least smile.

It is good to see promising bands acknowledge where they came from, have fun at what they do and keep their share of originality in each song. If they keep in the same track they might achieve a good success. Like the album suggest, sometimes you need that someone to get rid of all the fears that you let accumulate inside yourself. If music is “my someone” I’d say welcome Good Shoes.