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Simon Thacker it seems can not only make an enigma shine brighter than it could be imagined in the furthest reaches of an audience’s hopes and dreams but he can do it with such style that no matter what genre of music you find yourself most drawn too, he will have you believing in the art of classical Folk with the added bonus of Roma, Polish and the mysticism blend of the table as if it one of the finest undiscovered joys possible.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are all animals in our own farmyard; we might not like thinking about the fate of the horse, why the pigs are lording it over us or at what point the farmer was allowed to take retirement, yet still we go on, still we place our faith in the feed and the illusion. It takes art to give life meaning, everything else can just be the sound of sharpening knives and it takes real vitality and animation to alert all considered that these could be the Last Days At The Farm.
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The heart rejoices when it hears of a collection of souls achieving a singular aim, a goal far greater than they might have ever believed possible, such is life now that all the glory, all the praise seems heaped upon the younger members of society when the ones who have seen the action, who have lived through the raging wind and the autumn clouds deserve the same applause, that when anyone puts something together with passion, all should be seen as equal under the heavens.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When the meat on the bone is overflowing with juices, it is hard not to stop yourself from drooling at the prospect of taking a huge bite out of the offering laid out before you; it is the taste that lingers, that catches in the back of the throat and slays anything pretender to the French metal crown in a dog fight to the finish.
Heavy Metal has always had its rebellious side but for a band to immerse itself even deeper into the realms of the genre is unexpected and dripping with cool, especially when it is done with the absolute sincerity of spirit that Stillborn Slave provide in their exceptional 7 Ways To Die.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8/10
To have the air and stance of the disconnected whilst all the time being totally immersed in the flow of the music is to know that no matter what, you are not alone; the feeling of space around you is such that it is not filled with detachment and separation but the whispers, the rage of being embroiled in the mesh, the web and in Wolve’s Lazare there is, thankfully, no way out.
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There are just too many roads in which we are being pushed, urged to have an opinion, prodded by seemingly self appointed social dictators who cannot wait to prove us wrong or that what we do in life is somehow unacceptable to them; those roads may not always a steady footpath, there may occasionally be the stumbling blocks, the cordoned off pavements where weeds and dangerous insects reside but those roads are there to provide you with the means to say I will Change My Game and be utterly magnificent.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To be seen as perfect is not always the ideal, to have A Perfect Landing might be seen as textbook, as rigid and completely by the book as you can get and one that doesn’t allow for any variation in imagination or in the scale of the job at hand. Yet for Sheila K, Cameron A Perfect Landing is a piece of music that the listener cannot but help care for and admire because it offers a different set of values to which the absolute never caters for, that of unblemished hope.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
When they don’t let you take advantage of your first chance, the second stab at showing the world your words not only has to be taken, it has grabbed, slung over the shoulder and held so tightly that nobody can ever wrestle it of you. It requires love, attention and the spite to spit in the faces of all the detractors and those that dare raise their eyebrows in mock derision and painful excuses; wherever the Rain may fall, is not usually the sign of a flood but of the green and well thought of lawn, of the return of one of Liverpool’s much admired bands.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
The myth of it all, the subtle web weaved that creates illusion and the wonder of the creative, all is alive and well inside the superb minds of The Loch Ness Mouse, a band of stirring quality wrapped up inside the cool and the believed; it is to their self titled album that the myths are made real and the illusion filled in with facts and truths, one of which just how good they are when the music starts to play and where they can take you in their imagination.
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There is a difference, perhaps not so obvious at first glance or thought, between the daylight and the Night Hours, it is one in which many who dwell in the light, who cannot see the darkness as anything but a hindrance to enjoyment and the feeling of warmth on the skin, don’t see and that is only because they don’t witness the shadows on the souls, the pain that the night can bring and the sheer excellence of the art that dwells within. It is that kind of difference that Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith bring very much to the fore in their Folk driven album Night Hours.