Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
For now, our thoughts are our own, and we must treasure that, hold on to the privilege of self-determination and will, our judgements and beliefs that are immersed into the fabric of what makes our experiences unique, to be able to say with conviction that The Space Between My Ears belongs to me, and me alone.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The arcade, for many, was a place that was called home when home itself felt like alien territory. To be surrounded by likeminded people of your own age, to be overwhelmed by the bright lights, the echoing sound of coexistence and the constant range of voices in their angst as they took on ghosts, space invaders with repeated taps of an enticing button and the joystick which was handled by a thousand kids in their retreat into a world of machines and wires, the system that spawned a generation of teenagers to understand that what they needed was community, not derision and ridicule.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
What would you do differently If You Could Have It All Again? An old question perhaps of inconsequence, for Time does not allow the luxury of returning to the moment where your life could be altered significantly; for in the heat of the yes/no response your whole future hangs on the decision made by you and for you.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The old ways are never gone, the initial love at first senses drawn are on no account ever forgotten, for after all the depth of feeling created by the first encounter are always there in the back of the mind, and are the ones that give rise to emotional, and perhaps spiritual, response.
However, we must evolve, out tastes change, our outlook begins to differ as we open those precious senses to other possibilities of expression, and as we grow with that love, so we must, by default or out of fidelity, appreciate that the object of our affection, has other things to say, and unfamiliar ways in which to communicate them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Some names are just too important for Time to let go. We might not have heard the designations or titles for an age, maybe not at all, after all we cannot be expected to know to everyone and what they have contributed to the betterment of humanity in their lifetime.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
To capture the zeitgeist in times of warning and anguish is arguably a consideration of perfect observation and the draw of the artist’s vigilance, and one that must always be thought as beautiful as well as a study of the human condition.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We have got so used to the system that feeds off us, that we can no longer feel the pain of our mutual trauma, only the fear remains to guide and goad us on our collective ways. We have been caught singing for our daily bread by the proxy of mantra and found ourselves becoming addicted to the suffering we dearly need to dispense with if we are to return to a place of natural humanity.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
What was once fresh and novel to the ears can, in time, find itself to become languid and uninspiring. This is not always the fault of the artist, but instead how our senses manipulate the emotional response to anything that may appear to have lost the reason in which to surprise or even perhaps garner the thrill of the profoundly exciting.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It feels so long since we had the chance to see our surroundings that is reflected by the April Moon, that the clarity of the sky and horizon which comes before the heat haze of summer’s yearning takes over, is long overdue and deserving of acknowledgement and praise.
It is too early spring where the thoughts of renewal become clearer, more pronounced, the yearning for beauty after months of darkness and the bitter cold of human truth, is to where the artist’s mind must turn and for The Shadow Captain, it is the unveiling of his statuesque new album, April Moon.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Adversity is the window of opportunity, even if at the time it does not feel as though it is possible because the glass is darkened and the catch is on, all you must remember is that you can break the glass, smash it as though you would your own fears, and then take the world on in the open air and with your own artistic weapon of choice.