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No Hope No Future

Good Shoes

No Hope No Future

Second studio album from London-based indie rock quartet

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5.4

Label
Brille
UK Release date
25/01/2010
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  1. 8.0 |   The Digital Fix

    They’ve stepped out from being yet another okay band and are now a serious proposition. It’s either a bold commercial move or someone in the band desperately needs a hug. Either way this is a great record
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  2. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Good Shoes seem happy remaining cranky young men in their niche, keeping their less-than-stadium-sized but fervent crowd on their toes
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  3. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    ..on the face of things No Hope, No Future is happily mediocre. Enjoyable and jolly, but far from sensational
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  4. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    ...doesn't come up to the mark, and while one man's average is another's state of contentment, one would expect an outfit with the undoubted potential Good Shoes possess to settle for that little bit more
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  5. 6.0 |   Q

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  6. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  7. 5.8 |   Pitchfork

    When No Hope, No Future isn't staring glumly into the void, Good Shoes could be a whole other band-- the band of their debut, only more seasoned
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  8. 5.0 |   God Is In The TV

    A small handful of truly good songs stop this record from being a completely bad effort, and established fans will probably lap this up all the same
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  9. 5.0 |   NME

    Three years ago the south Londoners became the unlikely voice of suburban boredom and modern, social discontent, but in 2010, that impact has gone
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  10. 5.0 |   Click Music

    It seems like they’ve become content to draw from a wealth of well mined musical sources instead of pursuing their own creative vision and the result is an album which has moments of brilliance but fails to stand out from the crowd
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  11. 4.0 |   Uncut

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  12. 4.0 |   musicOMH

    No Future is a major disappointment for a band whose debut showed real promise. Let's just hope that title isn't somehow prophetic
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  13. 4.0 |   State

    At some stage on the album, Jones slams something or other as being “needlessly boring”. Sadly, this prompts the compulsion to rudely take his lyrics out of context in order to disappointedly summarise this record
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