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The confessional is not the preserve of the church, but rather the spirit to which we release our deepest feelings, agendas, insecurities, and motivations, and should we reveal these confessions in art, if we take the dance of acknowledgement of our beliefs enough to state them, to avowal them in a type of waking dreams as well as the idling slumber of ethereal driven life.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Let There Be Light, and the world will be illuminated.
Poetry, of any shape, creed, or foundation, may be more enticing when it shrouded by the darkness, when it calls upon the imagery of the less than full breath, the sense of the quick and the shallow course of nature to which the word is spacious, sacrosanct, and volatile. Add to this depth of illusionary purity the element of music, of the lyric sung as well as spoken, ethereal like conversation, and not only do you reveal light, you announce Sun Atoms as though it was the first day, and the sky, like the music, is on fore.
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The best of The Southbound Attic Band doesn’t even cover how enormously satisfying, how gracious, and how much fun it is to be in the presence of Barry Jones and Ronnie Clark as they perform on stage in various venues in their home town; if anything, the finest band that the vast majority of the U.K has yet to discover, is the sense of occasion they bring to your ears as they undoubtedly offer a view of the world of acceptance, tolerance, love and humour, where they are to are to be fully enjoyed.
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If the road is straight and long, then no matter the view that accompanies it, it will seem as though there is nothing to do but cruise along and be taken on a long instructional ride and become bored by the endless direction being offered. Deviation and change, the odd bump, the swerve to avoid the oncoming obstacle, the sense of delivery at taking a corner a bit sharper than you might have otherwise considered, these are the things that make life, the journey of interesting perception, truly worthwhile.
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Art inspires art, the very reason it exists is to bring joy and reflection to those that suffer and to stimulate the mind for others to feel the arousal of the written word, the provocation of the aural inducements, and the eyes wide open motivation of sincere urging to create; art is to the world as flirting is to the dance of love, one cannot exist without the other.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is a tendency to forget that song writing, is in effect poetry in motion, it is a building block, a foundation of description, a release of the inner most feelings, and no matter the style, no matter the voice, the poetry, and by virtue of its delivery, stand out as perhaps one of the most expressive forms of heroics we can muster about ourselves; for in that moment of reveal we are exposing our naked soul, we are allowing the relief of humanity to carry us onwards.
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Time was when the word progressive was considered a death knell to an artist who believed they were anything but. To be mentioned in the same fair as the Blues would have been suggestible of heresy, you might as well have walked into the Tower of London, stolen the crown jewels, and then set up a pitch in Peckham market and give them away with a packet of washing up powder.
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If there is a plan, a grand overarching scheme, a blueprint with the answers placed with pain staking precision, then for the most part, the overwhelming majority of humanity has not been told or made aware of its existence. It can feel as though we are at the opening moments of Douglas Adams’ insightful Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as the Vogan race inform the people of Earth that they had all time in the world to object to the destruction of the planet by lodging a complaint about the building of a bypass which happened to be on a Thursday.
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To own the emotion of sentiment is surely another way of declaring that you understand how important another period of time was to you and how, in the case of art, it has inspired you to believe that its extraordinary presence can still not only make you a finer person, but give you Love, Luck and Time in which to make your own romanticism, someone else’s emotional adventure and discovery.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The unannounced Shakedown, the spontaneous, without warning release, is for some who have been unceremoniously locked in a cage and the key removed from their sight, the moment when hope arises; for in that surprise visitation from beyond their vision, comes the source of their salvation, the basis of their belief for the next chapter in their lives.
The key to any success arguably stands in the form of adaption, the ability to move with the tide and time, and place trust in, if not reinvention, then re-emergence, for in that shakedown you are afforded the significance of being the focus of attention, of having a captive audience, and one who will no doubt be entertained by your next move.