✟ I AM NOT YOU ✟

Our new single is streaming everywhere now.

Taken from our 6th album GHOSTS ON TAPE out in January. pic.twitter.com/QFDgh0rArV

— Blood Red Shoes (@BloodRedShoes) November 26, 2021

The release of the new album will be followed up by a tour. Firstly the band will be embarking on a series of nine dates around the UK, visiting a number of areas such as Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham and Glasgow. This will take place in January starting on the 18^th. Afterwards, the group will be expanding their horizons throughout Europe, seeing France, Spain, Netherlands, Germany and even going as far as Russia. For those interested in a complete list of dates, they can go to the band’s website here.

According to Ansell in a recent interview: “This album is really about us asserting ourselves as our own little island. We have made an entire career out of being told what we are ‘not’, of being rejected, of not fitting in, and this album is us deliberately pushing into all of our strangeness, emphasising all of the things that make us different.” He described it as an “an invitation”, showing us their “darkest thoughts and feelings – our ghosts – caught on tape. You are welcome to join us. Come and embrace the strange.” For those of you interested in pre-ordering the album, you can go here.

The band, consisting of Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter, formed in Brighton back in 2004. They have already released 5 albums, with this newest release making it six. Ghosts on Tape will be following up their 2019 effort Get Tragic, as well as an EP released last June, entitled Ø after “the symbol on audio equipment to invert the signal”, which spawned the single “A Little Love”. In other news, Laura-May Carter’s solo career seems to be taking off with the release of her mini-album Town Called Nothing, due 3^rd December. The dates for their UK tour can be seen below, as well as the tracklist for the new album.

18/01/2022 – Bristol – The Fleece – Bristol
19/01 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
20/01 – O2 Institute 2 – Birmingham
21/01 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
22/01 – Academy 3 – Manchester
24/01 – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut – Glasgow
25/01 – St Dominic’s Catholic Club – Newcastle
26/01 – Chalk – Brighton
27/01 – The Garage – London

1) COMPLY
2) MORBID FASCINATION
3) MURDER ME
4) (i’ve been watching you)
5) GIVE UP
6) SUCKER
7) BEGGING
8) (you claim to understand)
9) I AM NOT YOU
10) DIG A HOLE
11) I LOSE WHATEVER I OWN
12) (what have you been waiting for?)
13) FOUR TWO SEVEN

ROSES RED
VIOLETS BLUE
A LITTLE LOVE
WON’T HURT YOU

Our new single is streaming everywhere now. https://t.co/XWHeeT2GjC pic.twitter.com/hKWS7mrGpK

— Blood Red Shoes (@BloodRedShoes) June 4, 2021

You can listen to the new track below:

Brighton duo consisted of guitarist/vocalist Laura-Mary Carter and drummer/vocalist Steven Ansell explained in a press statement the meaning behind the new song. The band said that “A Little Love” was inspired by a serial killers obsession that their victims are lovestruck with them.

They commented: “Like the rest of the planet, we are hooked on murder podcasts and Netflix docs about serial killers and psychopaths, and love thinking about mindset of the entitled stalker who is convinced a person loves and needs them, when that person doesn’t even know who they are. This is also the second song in our band’s history to feature a can of hairspray as an instrument”.
The new single is Blood Red Shoes’ first release that hasn’t been part of collaboration since 2019 when their album “Get Tragic” came out.
Earlier this year the band collaborated with AA Sessions and Projector on the single “I Just Wanna Lie In Bed And Drink My Wine“. The track is part of the AA Sessions Vol.2 which combines 12 singles released by different members of the AA Sessions group.

The band Blood Red Shoes formed in 2004 and so far they have released five full-length albums: “Box of Secrets” (2008), “Fire Like This”(2010), “In Time to Voices” (2012), “Blood Red Shoes” (2014) and “Get Tragic” (2019) as well as several EPs and a number of singles. In 2014 they have founded their own record label Jazz Life.