Blood Red Shoes release new single “I Am Not You”

Blood Red Shoes have released their new single “I Am Not You“. You can listen to the song below:

After “Morbid Fascination“, “I Am Not You” is the second single from Blood Red Shoes‘ upcoming 6th studio album “Ghosts On Tape” which will be released on 14 January 2022 via Jazz Life.

Blood Red Shoes comment on their new single as follows:

“The story of our band is the story of being outsiders. Of being rejected. Of being other. We have been told people don’t understand us or that we don’t ‘fit in’ for our entire career as a band, and we’ve been told that a lot as individuals too. Well this song is our response to that. We think it’s the most aggressive thing we’ve ever recorded. So no, we are not mellowing out with age.”– Blood Red Shoes

In view of their upcoming album, they continue:

“Our 6th album GHOSTS ON TAPE is out in January. We’re really really proud to have made it this far. Somehow we’ve outlasted 99% of the artists who were around when we started, which has not been easy at all. We talk a lot around this record about being outsiders and being different. and yeh, maybe that sounds kinda teenage to go on about feeling misunderstood or overlooked…but the truth is, that’s exactly how it’s been for us. We’ve never been a hype band. We’ve never been part of the zeitgeist. we’ve always been told we’re not the right fit or we’re difficult or confusing. Maybe it’s coz we have two singers? Or coz we are very different as people so we’re ‘hard to figure out’? we have no idea. When we started we got rejected by the DIY punk scene for not being punk, then we wrote It’s Getting Boring By The Sea as a fuck you to that scene and suddenly we were playing indie disco nights. Then they wouldn’t have us either, because we’re way too aggressive and heavy for the indie disco world. The hard rock press literally told us we don’t look right (not enough tattoos apparently). We’re too overground to be a hipster underground band. But we’re way too strange for the mainstream. We’re a rock duo that doesn’t play the blues, and increasingly we try electronics but we’re not a dance band. We just don’t fit. Well over time we’ve stopped caring about that. And this record is really about us reclaiming our sense of identity in the face of that. It’s about us saying, yes, you’re right, we don’t fit in, we are not normal, and we are confusing and conflicted and we have odd ideas about how we should look and sound and we love that. This album is about us making strengths out of what makes us different. Embracing our dark side. About us building our world, the way we want it, and inviting people to join us.”

– Blood Red Shoes

“Ghosts On Tape” can already be pre-ordered via Blood Red Shoes‘ website. Also the album cover and the album’s tracklist have already been revealed:

Tracklist

01 COMPLY
02 MORBID FASCINATION
03 MURDER ME
04 (i’ve been watching you)
05 GIVE UP
06 SUCKER
07 BEGGING
08 (you claim to understand)
09 I AM NOT YOU
10 DIG A HOLE
11 I LOSE WHATEVER I OWN
12 (what have you been waiting for?)
13 FOUR TWO SEVEN

And last but not least, the British alternative rock duo will embark on a tour through Europe and the United Kingdom, starting just a few days after the album release on 18 January 2022 in Bristol.

“We hit the road in January playing songs from our new album GHOSTS ON TAPE, plus songs from the Ø EP, plus songs from the 5 albums we made before that. We’re gonna change up the set list each night to keep things moving and because, well, at this point we have a lot of songs to choose from.”– Blood Red Shoes

The tour dates can be seen below: