Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are forever being reminded that the world does not revolve around us, and yet in the same breath we are advised that if we do nothing, if we don’t believe in ourselves then what was the point in existence, where does the balance begin that those who wish to see people subservient to the whims of static corrosion and those that urge others to strike out and achieve all that they can, and where does it ultimately lead?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To speak a language of love and sensuality without words is to acknowledge that poetry exists in many forms, that communication is not all down to verbal sound, and that human existence, human tragedy and joy don’t always need talking over.
To stand between silence and the projection of the voice is the sound of the instrumental, and in The Great Escape from ego and the uncomfortable, perhaps even muzzled, suppression of expression, there stands the influence and involved manifestation of the sound, the character of leaping into the unknown and eluding both ends of the spectrum, the silence and cacophony of the unfiltered human voice.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Time takes Time, only when the moment is right does the Muse look at their watch, smile beguilingly at the sculptor of dreams and precision, and make good on the promise to aid in the delivery of what is seen as art, what is the final expression of doubt and the beginning of an eternal voice occupying its time in history.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You can’t escape Christmas, it is as inevitable as a political gesture, it is as demanding as a court summons, and for some the meaning has become blurred, lost, sacrificed to the ring of the till and the steady heartbeat beep of the transaction.
Perhaps such things were always there in the background, and so by contrast we have made the most of them, we have allowed the need to be replaced by want, that we are showing love through the showering of money, and not in the belief of the joy of artistic pursuit and the natural state of sharing a common endeavour of the sparkle, the glistening interaction afforded the time of year.
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Life is a risk. That is the whole point, we cannot sit safely on a high chair being force fed the bland and beige through a sterile tube, occasionally deliberating a thought that might be considered controversial if we pursue it to its logical end, and then dismissing it if it should cause more than a ripple of offence. The trouble is that we all want to be liked, and we all want to live in a world that is friendly; a world where the dull, the routine, and the boring, are greeted as though they are the ministers and saints that hold court in the land of the righteous and the new moral guardians.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Being taken to The Parade is one of life’s absolute pleasures, you may only watch it take place, be the bystander in a crowd of thousands marvelling at the colour and sound as it fills the air and makes the senses run wild with excitement, but you will remember the procession forever, you will recall how small you felt in the face of the animated faces, how you held on to someone’s hand so that you wouldn’t get lost, you wouldn’t become part of the throng and the push of the convoy of exuberance and celebration.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Darwin received a fair amount of disgruntlement for his startling discoveries and observations when he undertook his voyage upon H.M.S. Beagle and pondered the meaning of life across time and found that survival depended on being the most adaptable.
Even long after his death he is misquoted, sometimes by the oppressor and the bully, often by the religiously inclined; if only he had written and presented a paper titled Survival Of The Friendliest, then perhaps much of the toxic humanity we have collectively endured since the day the great man first noticed the differences in the finches as they flew in circles around The Galapagos Islands, might well have been avoided.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Ed Brayshaw is as individual as they come, the sense of the distinct and the specific framing the abundance of ideas and musical outpourings is seemingly personal to him, and despite the immensity of his contribution to others which grace the same playing field, the personality of being is one of character, of a persona who knows exactly the role he is performing and the encompassing truth to which the song never strays.
Following on from the superb Fire Without Water, Ed Brayshaw returns with that deep courage filled persona and musical riches in an album of muscle, command, and imperative belief.
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Rarely, if ever, do we get the chance to be in someone’s life for the entirety of their existence, the best we can often realise is that we are there for the moments that matter, the good, the bad, and possibly the indifferent when summer days are listless and unmoving.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
For the Benefit of those who believe that Jethro Tull starts at Aqualung and ends around the time when the golden age of Progressive Rock gave way in time to the neo-Progressive successor, Steven Wilson, who himself is no stranger to the delight and sorcery of the genre has remixed, and indeed given new life to perhaps one of Jethro Tull’s least mentioned, and often least enjoyed in certain circles albums, the 1970 classic Benefit.