Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is not a question that comes easy, one though where the answer might always be found lurking at the back of the mind, and one where when all is considered, can be seen to place the very idea of soul searching to which many of either embrace, or we shy away from, concerned with the results that will undoubtedly come our way; to be asked Are You Lonely Enough? is one that is born of regret, rejection and the opening of wounds that don’t recover.
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Not everything makes sense the first time that you approach the novel or the inspired difference, it might take a while for the unusual to sink in and few head scratches shared between friends and discussions with those that you share the news with. Then there is a moment of clarity, a smile of recognition envelopes your face and all that you took for granted can be replaced, a new thought in which to Love And Unlearn is a way to grapple with the world that declines to play by the rules you were taught to follow.
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The canvas, even at the end, still has room for one more additional brush of artistry that will compliment the overall picture, some will take the time to adorn, even flourish the one space they need to see the bigger picture, others will leave the plot blank, the secrets perhaps they keep to themselves of the one they have painted for others to see.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Anyone can do the right thing and be applauded for it in a world dominated by social media, but it takes a hero to make the moral choice of doing the right thing without the expectation of having been noticed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If you can find an artist who provides atmosphere as well as thought, then hold on to them for dear life, for they have been endowed with the ability to make an audience and a solo listener plumb the depths of beauty, melancholic grandness and the urge to walk down many roads holding their hands.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Roll the dice and call your number, you can do worse than watch the emotional smorgasbord that takes place in any Casino after hours. The rolling of the bones, life at its most infinite, desperate, joyful, regretful and cunning, the observance of the cheater who thinks they have gone unnoticed, the player surrounded by the handsome, the rich and the gullible. All hoping for their mark and their cut of the fortune on offer, the Casino holds their attention to the last dime has been wagered.
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A Poet will sing such sweet serenades to their love, whilst always making eyes at another Muse, their belief of their own structured mortality allows them to fall in love whilst never chasing the final act, the courtship being an unrivalled sentence to the finality offered by the closed off chapter and succession in what they would term conquering the affections in Numberless Dreams.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is usually only with hindsight that we regretfully see just how one person’s artistic talent was never truly realised during their lifetime and whilst Blues-man Gary Moore was often and rightly, lauded for his prowess, it is only with the benefit of reinvestigation and reappraisal that we truly understand what we have lost. The subtly of performance, the devastating mood that he could affect and the range in which the genre owes him arguably a debt for being one of the few of its sources who managed to bridge the divide between its golden Rock period and the inspiration afforded the new generation which has come to pass in the years since he unfortunately died.
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The world has not only lost its way, it could be argued that in its madness it has taken us all hostage and yet with no hope of a ransom being paid, it slowly, and surly, finds ways to grind us down, we escape in a fantasy to combat the emotional turmoil we feel and we stare at screen all day in the hope it brings us respite and hope of escape. It is not the fault of some all-powerful, non-existent Matrix, it is the way we have allowed ourselves to be conditioned, we are reactive, not proactive enough, and we have lost the ability to be Wide Awake And Waiting to strike home at those who would have us all in pens.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
“No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense (sic) soon lapses into the true character“, so observed Seneca The Younger, and it is pretence that we often seek the answers to the surreal and perplexing question of What If?
There are many scenarios to such a question, but for Finnish Metal Kings Lordi, the question has become posed in Time, the “What if” of a lost album, the sudden release, unexpected, unknown collection of songs that hark back to a period in which Glam Rock and the vibe of the 70s insight reigned supreme, it is to that supposed lost recording that Killection follows the path laid out by imagination and by the fortitude of expression.