Who is the real Real Girl: Mutya Buena or Rihanna?
The one by two that’s three-chord rock: It’s Getting Boring By The Sea, Blood Red Shoes Brighton-based duo Blood Red Shoes trade in paint-by-numbers Brit rock, with the delightful Laura-Mary Carter taking lead vocals and drummer Steven Ansell following her lead. Because there’s just two of them making music in a rudimentary style and sharing a primary-colour aesthetic, Carter and Ansell are compared to the White Stripes with predictable frequency. It’s a shortsighted comparison, not just because of the chasm between the two bands’ musicianship, but because it denies the Shoes a certain amount of recognition – while they’re no White Stripes, they are a good little three-chord rock band who don’t pretend to be anything else. It’s Getting Boring… combines an arrestingly bendy guitar riff with Laura-Mary’s warblings about things getting a bit dull round her way. Job done. Listen at MySpace. The one that’s solo and yet so far: Real Girl, Mutya Buena What’s that sound? Is it the second com
