Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The thrilling spectacle of the stage, the pursuit of the psychedelic and the enchantment of creative arena, desire lives within any theatre, craving can be born within the sound of a prompter’s whisper or the sound of the band striking up the first tentative notes. It is in the spectacle that encompasses the spectacle that makes Purson’s new album Desire’s Magic Theatre such a caper of adventure to relish listening to.
The art of the psychedelic escapade is one that doesn’t tickle every musical bone in the body and yet it offers near perfect illusion, it requests that the brain take full note and makes the yearning for the reach of aspiration a real and fully fledged wish; that to understand the appeal of the music is not lost in the trickery and flim-flam offered by others.
The deception offered by nameless few sometimes makes the listener find solace in other less favourable motifs and areas of musical genres, yet in the psychedelic there is a touch of humanity not truly experimented upon elsewhere, it offers an expansion to the dream-like quality of existence that in such plays havoc with the senses and is a ride in which to feel gratification and appropriately, desire.
The stirring vocals of Rosalie Cunningham entrance and find openings into the mind that others may miss, that might skirt past the aural pleasure caves into which coveting is a pleasure worth pursuing with delicate temperament. It is the prompter’s whisper that creeps upon you from nowhere, that makes the oral delivery become a playful spirit, like Tatiana or Oberon sensing they are winning the argument, so too does Purson know that by the end of the album they will have fireworks set off in their honour.
In songs such as Electric Landlady, Dead Dodo Down, The Window Cleaner and The Bitter Suite, Purson prove that to be intricate in every detail, to allow the slow backdrop of allusion and personality to come riding through, is to be an experience that burst the bubble of the self possessed and feeds the imagination of the dedicated followers.
A musical must have that truly is a magical occurrence.
Purson release Desire’s Magic Theatre on April 29th.
Ian D. Hall