GoodBooks, Buffalo Bar, London; Thursday August 9
NME is scrambling for a pen when a pretty blonde comes over and gently strokes our hair. “Eurgh. Sorry mate, I totally thought you were someone else.” Right, thanks. We’re not the only ones who have fallen victim to mistaken identity though...
GoodBooks: Control
The debut album from London indie puppydogs GoodBooks arrives in the same breath – and with the same name – as Anton Corbijn’s darker-than-thunder movie about Joy Division. Twist of timing or cunning ploy? Either way, you wouldn’t have...
GoodBooks
One day, GoodBooks and Good Shoes will bite the bullet, join forces, call themselves Good Hair and stop confusing people. Until then, however, we have this. A sort of electro-pop Belle & Sebastian pastiche that’s twee to within an inch of its...
GoodBooks
Very angular and impressive and Editors-esque though this is, what it’s not, one would argue, is particularly good. It’s certainly not up to the standard of ‘Turn It Back’ or the wondrous ‘Leni’. It does seem that we are so swamped...
GoodBooks: Leni
Apparently, one of GoodBooks had ‘Columbia Records’ and the date they signed to them tattooed around his wrist the day they signed. So we should probably hope for their sake that this is a relationship that lasts, otherwise his next...
