Blood Red Shoes (album)
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| Studio album by Blood Red Shoes | ||||
| Released | 3 March 2014 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, stoner rock | |||
| Length | 37:36 | |||
| Label | Jazz Life | |||
| Producer | Blood Red Shoes | |||
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| Metacritic | 64/100 |
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Blood Red Shoes is the fourth album by Brighton-based rock band Blood Red Shoes, released on 3 March 2014 in the UK and Europe through Jazz Life Records. The album was recorded over a 6-month period in Berlin and was entirely self-produced and engineered by the band themselves. The first song from the album, "The Perfect Mess", was released on 1 December 2013, after 10 QR codes were found in different cities by the band's fans.
After releasing the Water EP in January 2013 (the first new Blood Red Shoes material since their third album In Time to Voices), the band moved to Berlin for six months to write and record the new album. Entirely self-produced, it is the first Blood Red Shoes album to not be a co-production with usual collaborator Mike Crossey. The album was also the first release by the band to be released through their own imprint, Jazz Life. In a press release, drummer Steven Ansell stated: "For this album we packed up all our stuff, got in a van and drove to Berlin, where we lived for months in a rented studio space. No producer, no engineer, no A&R people, just us two in a big concrete room in Kreuzberg, jamming and recording our songs whenever we wanted, how we wanted with nobody to answer to except ourselves. It came out as our rawest, heaviest, sexiest and most confident sounding record so far".
On 20 November 2013, the band announced the release of a new single on 1 December 2013. The release of the single was dependent on the scanning of ten QR codes which were placed in ten different cities for fans of the band to find. QR codes were placed in Lisbon, New York City, Brussels, Moscow, Amsterdam, Jakarta, Mexico City, London, Paris and Berlin. Once all ten QR codes were scanned, "The Perfect Mess" was uploaded to the band's Soundcloud and embedded on their website, which crashed for a short while due to server overload from fans trying to hear the new song.
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