"Stitch Me Back" / "Meet Me at Eight" is the second release by the English band
Blood Red Shoes
Blood Red Shoes are an English alternative rock duo from Brighton consisting of Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. They have released six full-length albums, '' Box of Secrets'' (2008), '' Fire Like This'' (2010), '' In Time to Voices'' (2012) ...
, released on 20 February 2006 on the Try Harder label.
[Roberts, Colin (2006)]
12609 Blood Red Shoes - Stitch Me Back/MeetMe At Eight
", Drowned in Sound, 14 February 2010, retrieved 2010-03-29 The single was a double A-side release, however "Stitch Me Back" endured as the more prominent of the two songs, as it continued to be played live by the band during their album release tour in 2008.
Critical reception
Colin Roberts of
Drowned in Sound described "Stitch Me Back" as "essentially a three minute chorus that pounds and pounds until you're beaten into submission and the words 'stitch me back' are imprinted in the centre of your skull", calling it "a great, great song".
A SoundsXP review called it "a loud and brutal snarl of spiky guitar pop".
Single Review: Blood Red Shoes ''Stitch Me Back''
, SoundsXP, 2 March 2006, retrieved 2010-03-29 Mark Beaumont of ''NME
''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...
'' suggested that "Stitch Me Back" when performed live sounded "like someone’s thrown a drumkit, 50 mallets and a naked and shaved bassist into a high security ward for psychopathic cannibals and recorded the result".[Beaumont Mark]
Maximo Park/!!!/Hot Club De Paris/Blood Red Shoes/Shockwaves NME Awards Show, Astoria, London
, ''NME
''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...
'', retrieved 2010-03-29 Sam Shepherd of musicOMH was also impressed, stating "Stitch Me Back is hectic, it's shambolic and it is thoroughly exciting".[Shepherd, Sam (2006)]
Blood Red Shoes - Stitch Me Back (Try Harder)
, musicOMH, retrieved 2010-03-29
Track listing
7"
# "Stitch Me Back"
# "Meet Me At Eight"
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stitch Me Back Meet Me at Eight
2006 singles
2006 songs