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Life can be extraordinary for some, but that is only because of the sheer hard work they have put into making it so. For as Andrew Finn Magill brings his growing audience a further taste of the music that he has become entrenched within and it is one that is patient, lively and full captivation, one that knows the spirit it offers and that of the musician’s Roots, one that spreads out as each note is forged in the steam of a fiddle on fire.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Into every life the chance to use every muscle at your disposal and take on a wild animal must be taken. Sometimes you really have to ride the biggest horse you can and make it sweat, whether it is an unwanted and unwarranted situation, the pressure of living up to someone’s high expectations or simply having the utmost courage to take on a disease or school yard bully; sometimes you really do have to ride that horse to look back with pride and honour.
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Change is in the air, it is how we deal with it that separates us from the rest of humanity. Not always a good thing, change happens regardless, it is the slow tune played out by time to keep us on our toes, it is the steady march which beats out against the rust and decay and whilst it might not be considered a good thing, it is inevitable.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is honour to be found in the raw, the angry and furious. It is the honour of producing truth, a sense of freedom that you want to immerse yourself in and take stock from every now and then as you remember with clarity how you wanted to change the world, how you wanted to be the person that was the catalyst of the revolution.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It might be considered a tad too much to want to roll out the red carpet, to place the fireworks ready in the strategic place and put the brightly coloured bunting out, to basically throw a party the size of Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall but to welcome back one of the great live and studio acts of the last ten year. Well, perhaps the red carpet might be a bit glaring but the fact remains that the exceptional Natalie McCool is very much one of the great female acts of the last decade and is up there with the likes of Joanne Shaw Taylor for bringing the very best out of music.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It seems typical that the superbly angry, the enraged beauty, that lives and breathes inside one of the most talked about bands, The Sneaky Nixons, should produce a great song with the idea of someone else’s misfortune as its central theme. Maybe nobody else would dare, nobody else would go that far but for The Sneaky Nixons, it’s not about causing upset, it is bringing the very real idea home that there are people out there who just seem to get an absolute kick from the act of Schadenfreude.
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The moment of shock, the element of surprise that is able to breathe inside the minds of those with imagination, is always such a treat to come across because most will only see the title of something without listening or reading beyond and whilst the name of the E.P. will quite rightly raise an eyebrow and even have some spluttering over their hard boiled tea, The Bordellos always have a way of turning the music on its head and coming up with a selection of songs that bite as well nurture the aural glands.
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There is a kind of humility, of earthy secular cool attached to the isolated and melancholic. Without melancholy, existence is just a set of lines running between extreme happiness and the dark of despondency, melancholy allows the colouring of all courage to be realised, it is the rest that allows the brain and heart to gather strength and become unified in its passion to take on the best.
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It seems to be a dichotomy in waiting, the serenity of the title enraged by the possibility of destruction to be wrecked upon the coast; the sacrifice that the coral will offer in place of the spreading and multitudes of sands. When A Shoreline Dream releases the power of the Whirlwind, the mixed message might take some getting used to but soon becomes as hauntingly beautiful as sitting down in the grass covered dunes and letting the water smash over you.
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Communication, it can either break down, be misinformed like a game of Chinese Whispers, so much so that it tears minds and friendships apart, or it can restore faith, it can bleed truth, it can be awkward. It can be devastating in its silence and it can be beautiful, something that will make your heart stop and make you sit in the shade of quiet for a while; it is Communication that makes us human and it is the simplicity of it that brings out the finest belief in us all.