Blog: angels twenty

[review 2008: favourites] Read a bunch of reviews for Box of Secrets and you'll get an idea of Blood Red Shoes' weaknesses fairly quickly: a tendency to stick too closely to the same basic sound, and perhaps still in search of how much sonic polish is just right and how much is too much. But some of these weaknesses are in fact my favourite things about the band's first album. Taking three years to incubate, Box of Secrets is cobbled together from a mix of live staples and early seven-inches, re-recorded to [...]