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No Hope, No Future - Good Shoes
Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. BBC Music
    80
    Good Shoes have home-produced a record worthy of similar plaudits; there's both hope and future here in abundance.
  2. All Music Guide
    70
    No Hope, No Future doesn't always play to the band's proven strengths, but it shows that Good Shoes are a thoroughly independent, even contrary band that's unafraid of change, even when it's difficult.
  3. PopMatters
    70
    With no delusions of grandeur attached to a debilitating hype machine, Good Shoes seem happy remaining cranky young men in their niche, keeping their less-than-stadium-sized but fervent crowd on their toes.
  4. Drowned In Sound
    60
    The main problem with No Hope, No Future, though, is that very little here stands out above the accepted and expected norm. At times, there's a feeling Good Shoes have almost resigned themselves to a destined state of mediocrity.
  5. Mojo
    60
    When Jones starts singing about Clapham over the clipped, welter-weight indie of this quartet's second studio album it begins to seem a curiously south-eastern English rock vision - the clean guitars and Cure-style vocals suggesting a lighter shade of Bloc Party. [Feb 2010, p. 92]
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  6. Q Magazine
    60
    Although reaching a touching peak on melancholic closer City By The Sea, two albums in Good Shoes still lack a defining personality of their own. [Feb 2010, p. 107]
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  7. Dusted Magazine
    60
    It sounds like the Good Shoes are tired and mildly sick of it all--and unfortunately, it's catching.
  8. Pitchfork
    58
    A darker album, a slightly clumsier album, but an album with a strong unifying themes and a few songs worth stepping away from the bar for.
  9. New Musical Express (NME)
    50
    London quartet Good Shoes offer little to get flustered over with this sometimes dire, but mostly mediocre second album.
  10. Uncut
    40
    As the title suggests, No Hope, No Future is rather short on vim. The wiry, Wire-y dynamics are mostly presnt and correct. [Feb 2010, p.86]
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  11. musicOMH.com
    40
    It's a moment to rejoice on an album that just feels flaccid in comparison to the youthful debut.
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