Blood Red Shoes are at the Czar tonight

The latest self-titled album from Brighton, England’s Blood Red Shoes opens with nearly two minutes of bone-rattling, instrumental fury. It’s an introduction that sets the pace for the rest of the record’s 11 blistering songs, as Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell, who share lead vocals, drag their demons out by the horns and beat them senseless.

It’s hard to believe Carter on “Speech Coma,” as she delivers the chorus like blows to a punching bag: I can’t get the words out/It’s like someone cut out my tongue. You’ve got to admire a band that, 10 years in, still manages to sound convincingly angry all the time.

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