Good Shoes - 'We Are Not The Same EP' (Brille) Released 20/03/06

Despite Good Shoes being one of those bands you could spend aeons name-checking their abundant influences, they’re imbued with a quirkiness and bona fide brilliance that sets them apart from pale imitators. Kicking off with a genius spiky hook, EP title track ‘We Are Not The Same’ transgresses into an unadulteratedly brilliant slab of guitar-pop complete with a chanty, defiant chorus. Next the breathless ‘Southwest Trains’ packs more bite into its sub-two minutes than most bands could manage in five, while ‘May Lannoye’ is purportedly a love song but the discordant swagger could persuade you otherwise. Capped off with the rhythmic, tetchy ‘Things To Make And Do’, you soon realise that this is a fantastic EP from what could be a special band.