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Scabeater, Idiot Mule. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It takes time to become the artist others know from the start that you are, to reach the point in your own mind that others have passionately believed you were from the moment they first heard you. Some are gifted enough to have that honour bestowed upon them from the very beginning, others have it confirmed in their heads, others have the greatness thrust upon them, and occasionally these moments exist in one spell, one blinding moment of absolute brilliance to which the listener finds themselves holding their breath and waiting impatiently, crucially, for the next song to send them to another place, another time.

Scabeater, They’re My Bridges And I’ll Burn Them If I Want To. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Bridges are those in which we reach out in the hope of finding people in which to share meaning and understanding with, the passion and the fury, the love and the memories. They are the symbolic gesture that binds us but also they can be the moment of destruction, when the fragile peace and accord is ripped apart and razed to the ground, all that remains is the blackened stumps of former trust and the smouldering fire and for the dogged individual, for the one who sees that all eventually will smoulder, the phrase of the 21st Century personal revolutionary and social anarchist, They’re My Bridges And I’ll Burn Them If I Want To has perhaps never been more fitting.