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Rab Noakes, Welcome To Anniversaryville. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Any anniversary reached is worth commemorating, however there is something inspiring about reaching 50 years of artistic endeavour, of finding that what you may have first laid down in the heat of a moment’s love, regret, resentment or happiness, is what has driven you onwards ever since; that first scribbled line as you declared your feelings towards a person or the wrath of government, that is the flourish in which you always try to capture and see as a daily, monthly or yearly Welcome to Anniversaryville.

Rab Noakes, The Treatment Tapes E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The resilience and fortitude in the human soul is at times the most amazing and outstanding thing that anyone can ever be privileged to witness. It is an honour at times to see the spirit of the race carry on in the face of untold dangers and come through it, as individuals or as a collective, with courage and resilience so intact that the next thing they do is even more remarkable. To put down on paper, to record feelings that might never have been thought of if such hardship has not been faced is something very special and unique, the framing of the human condition in its most wonderful, so fragile and yet inspired; it is something that Rab Noakes has captured with great sincerity in The Treatment Tapes E.P.