Play 90 second soundbite of 'Red Shoes' @ 'CD quality'
successfully balances pop sensibility and punkish attitude with furious, hard edged rock and 'Red Shoes' and its 'B' side, 'Sirens', is a release that carries with it hefty commercial aspirations whilst offering even the most critical rock'n'roll purist something that's difficult to fault and even harder to ingore.
Using chunky slices of synths and keyboards that sit neatly and impressively in and around the pounding bass and drum work, Midas quite clearly want to provide the discerning, music loving public with something a little bit 'different'. And, with that 'different', Midas also manage to sound distinctive, appealing and undeniably saleable. The two guitars weave their individual and combined riffs and licks alongside rather than atop the keys thereby leaving plenty of space for the awesome vocal work to spill out the gritty, observational lyrics. Totally ignoring genre boundaries and restrictions, Midas cut loose their hard-driven, anthemic sounding songs in pretty majestic fashion as they go romping headlong into the black hole of modern musical reality without getting their musical genes totally scrambled - with one foot planted squarely in the realms of frantic pop whilst managing to keep the other foot rooted in solid, indestructible rock.
Unapologetically commercial but ruthlessly rockin' and with both tracks being as catchy as hell, 'Red Shoes' by Midas should be a mega money earner for this gutsy Midlands outfit. Midas offer something that most of their contemporaries would dearly love to be able to offer - genre-blurring, danceable pop-rock that truly 'holds water' and sounds very much like the real deal.
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