Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
One cool daddy, one auspicious casual cat, but one with the rich seam of emotion that embraces the heart and mind together in a way that so few people can manage, can even contemplate, and in that full embrace the listener, the aural lover, will always find the one with love for humanity reaching out long after many have believed the message has stopped being sent.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
From a certain height you can see the whole of creation that stretches ahead of you, and what you left behind with clarity; no longer stuck between a rock and a hard place, A View From The Top Of The World is the vantage point where all can make sense, or at least seem that way as you balance belief and argument in one hand, and in the other you offer your soul to the winds and the music exploding out of ever sinew and muscle.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The future is unwritten, the past has had its say, and yet the present, the moment we inhabit, is as blind to us as the hidden depths of the sea, or the infinite vagaries of what lays beyond our comprehension as more of the universe is revealed.
What we do understand is just how important the moment to us is, that whilst we have a form of time travel in being able to recall personal history with a kind of vivid form of entitlement, and look to the days ahead with wide-eyed optimism, the moment offers a myriad of confusing emotions to which we place the significance of certain events, of potential high points, as being the most important way to spend the day.
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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.