专辑简介

John Parry, an exciting new streetwise singer-songwriter with a class consciousness and a neat line in indie-pop, has already made waves with Enough and Love Drunk Punch - songs that detail Parry’s exploits on the harsh streets of Isle of Dogs and Poplar - but with Nice Shoes he has reached new levels of infectiousness with a side order of cheeky sauce. But the former ELAM (East London Arts and Music) alumni hasn't just mastered catchy three-minute guitar-fuelled indie: the B-side, Take My Money, is a doleful meditation on love on the dole that shows Parry can do quiet fury as well as fun. Both songs are inspired by real-life experiences: his pithy rhymes explore the vagaries of relationships and the injustices he witnessed growing up on the rough side of the capital with rare skill and invention.