Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Do no harm, not just an oath for those that seek patients in distress, nor as a mantra into which we look upon the lives as others as sacred, but to our own souls, to our belief, for if we are cruel, if we are disposed to place anger against our own essence and being, then we are preparing ourselves to cause havoc on the one we should be caring for most; ourselves.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are presented with two states of existence when we are urged to look at the new year and its possibilities, one of careful and observant hope, and another which can be seen as toxic happiness, the frame of mind which insists all around them pledge to show a face which belies their naked spirit, and arguably causes those others to feel something they would rather not confront.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You know exactly what you are going to be exposed to before the needle comes down gracefully upon the spinning vinyl, and yet the bolt of music you find your ears impaled upon is both satisfyingly and dynamically explosive. It is enough to register shock waves of pleasure and joy from across the oceans, it is seismic even after more than a decade and a half after it first appeared in cd form. It is the overwhelming arsenal poised at your heart, the warheads of metal ready to take off and bombarded the listener with strike after strike, the unrepentant wave of hits as A Night In Buenos Aires becomes the theatre of music that is so richly needed in a period of human inactivity.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To release a cover of a well-known hit song or personal favourite is considered a modern etiquette, the chance to acknowledge what has guided you, what has inspired you, what creativity has pushed you to the point where your own music is forever joined at the hip and acknowledged as a natural partner, is good manners and appreciated by artist and fan alike.
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To move forward is to evolve, and yet in the hands of a master, time can become meaningless; 50 years producing music that quite often defied convention, that ridiculed the notion of stereotyping, and refused to be tied to one person, despite critics and fans alike quite often only associating the magic of flute with the name itself, that is the meaninglessness of Time, for Jethro Tull, Time is a scope of illusion and imagery.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The evocative nature of a single word or a modest phrase can unleash scenarios in the mind that are more than just placed there by the artist, they open up worlds that the intended recipient cannot but help desire to explore, and whether by map, by a crude drawing by the naive cartographer or from the promise of suggestion by The Tape, what is revealed is not only a haunting promise, it is beauty declared.
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It is fair to suggest that the word normality should be stricken from the vocabulary of every living person till the end of time, for nothing truly is normal, the practise of our existence is such that time around us evolves, that it contains pressures, burdens, responsibilities, stressful situations, and strains, all of which are forced upon us, and which must consider with great compassion the effect it has on others as well as ourselves. Nothing about human activity on Earth is normal, and during a period of time in which the spirit is tested on an unimaginable scale, to seek normality is to suggest that we question the magnitude of time itself and how we spend it.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If the title is a question, then the answer would be a simple yes, but it is loaded, for the listener will soon come to understand as they take in moment by moment the sound and expression of Kimberly Morgan York’s debut album Found Yourself A Lady, that what they have actually discovered, stumbled upon with delight, is an artistic soul who fought the metaphorical devils and come out the other side with her veins filled with intent, her mind a blazing, and the stomach for a fantastic tune fortified and steeled.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There was a time when you could measure your life by the expectancy of how your weekend shaped up on its second day. For many Sunday was at the best of times dull, routine, a moment where on the Saturday night you might, if you were able to, hear the moans of a nation realise in beige coloured horror that the least engaging day of the week was upon them, and that the vaunted day of rest was to be endured, and that their parents would be asleep on the coach by midday and the spectre of family dinner would soon rear its head.
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A prediction is, on the face of it, an easy statement to declare, after all there is usually at least a fifty percent chance that you will be right if you think it through, the odds, permutations, is nothing short of watching two boxers slug it out and having a cash incentive on the winner; then as the successful boxer’s arm is lifted and the crowd cheers, you can earnestly say, and appear sage like in the act, that you predicted the outcome.