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Good Shoes is a young band from Morden, south London, near Wimbledon. Judging from their lyrics, Morden, or maybe Modern in a word jumble, is a classic shopping-town suburbia that still has its fair share of skinheads and drug dealers amongst the sprawl. The band has been lumped with technical prog-poppers Mystery Jets from Eel Pie Island and the Thamesbeat scene. However, some have argued that other neighboring bands like Jamie T, Larrikin Love, or Holloways, also labeled as Thamesbeat, only share a location not a sound. Regardless of whether there is a cohesive Thamesbeat scene in London, Good Shoes sings about the encompassing neighborhood where they grew up abound with small-town-meets-big-city dilemmas.

Their sound owes some to The Futureheads, Gang of Four, Television, The Jam, or any other UK band with chops on their guitars and lyrics that ride those riffs. Their album Think Before You Speak is out in the UK and I like it better than any of the other most recent imports like The View, The Fratellis, or The Kooks – Jamie T excluded. Something is happening in the suburbs of south London right now.

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