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One Step Forward, and a day, an album, a resonating thought at a time; the pleasure that comes from listening to a set of songs that you always knew was coming, and one that was placed in your trust from the moment the artist stepped out onto the stage and introduced themselves to a world that was unaware, unconscious of what was about to be unleashed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Too often we write the songs, paint the pictures and recite the down at heel poems which reflect our own imagined lives, the sense of gentle conceit that surrounds us as we imagine that our lives are somehow worthy of other’s gaze and perception, of their interest; occasionally we might also draw the life of another into our artistic subconscious and present a part, a detail of their story, to allow their memory to live on after their death.
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The emotional ties we keep hidden away in the attic, the items stored in boxes out of reach to all bar those with the humility and passion to climb a precarious ladder, are concealed out of sight for a reason, because whilst they remain deep inside the home’s least-ventured room, they remain safe and unscrutinised, they are the ideas that have yet to see fruition, yet to be placed on display, or relegated to the trash.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Bombarded as we are by the big picture, the rush of information and the knowledge that as one story finds itself winding up, another will come round and find ways to make us anxious, make us feel permanently on edge. An ever-growing cycle of news requires whimsy, someone else’s reflections about a love, a reminder that not everything in life revolves around destruction and mayhem, that occasionally, every now and then, you must acknowledge and embrace the news from the other side of darkness and take on, with a smile, someone’s pet love.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Satire has reached a point, where for some, the idea is a caricature of its own self, where you cannot lampoon an individual of certain standing because it demeans the message they are trying to get across, the miles and years they have put into cultivating an image which is pristine and supposedly captures the best of us, that somehow suggests we have to fawn and tip our hat to them whenever they speak, pass judgement, make a noise but which in reality the public could use as a weapon, not one to maim but to prick the over inflated opinion and the pomposity of those that seek to rule.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Being able to wear a mask to hide one’s intentions is considered dishonourable; the element of mystery is heightened by hundreds of years of pop culture where the villain hides their identity so that they might rob and maim with impunity. From the legends surrounding highwaymen, through to the modern-day equivalent of plastic replicas of famous people covering the face when stealing from a bank, the mask is one that brings out a certain boldness of deceit and the air of the mystique.
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There is world of difference between old and new, the second, or even third hand car being driven, the hand me down clothes, the rebound love affair, the original thought against rewriting an old classic, all can still be loved, cared for, even given a new sense of purpose, but what of the natural order, the regifted bouquet, the blossoms turned down and then passed on to the next person that walks past; Old Flowers is normally the sign of an afterthought, of the post-script to a doomed relationship, and yet in the hands of Courtney Marie Andrews, Old Flowers becomes a reflection of understanding that comes with seeing the beauty of the past, and knowing that you have to whisper goodbye to each individual petal to regain your own self back.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Beauty, as they say, is only skin deep, an alternative way of proclaiming that we should allow ourselves the freedom of looking beyond the top layer, the initial response to the stimuli effect in which we see the attraction without understanding what the face on show was built upon.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The time to Grit Your Teeth and push through the pain barrier of unwelcome opinion has arguably never been pertinent than it is now and whilst the world finds ways to tear itself apart, to insist on someone else’s sacrifice just so they can continue to be the top dog at the party, the open air event for the headline act which guarantees the status quo in perpetuity, others who have more than earned their shot at the top are left wondering when it will be them, when will the status quo be replaced.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
A message that is not conveyed properly will ultimately lead to misunderstanding, confusion and in some cases the feeling of having been kept from something important, from being neglected and the fear of false impressions.
Such occurrences are inevitable, in the world that we have made for ourselves, few take the time to say what they actually mean, desire or think because of the fanatical way in which we hold up such misinterpretation as an act of aggression, of conflict and whilst no harm may have been intended, that the sleight taken was never there to be found in the cold light of delivery, it nevertheless is harnessed, weaponised and then for added pleasure, dropped like a stone in a lake of seething public outcry.